What We Did In Class Today November 8, 2010

Dark Roast

A general term describing any roast of coffee darker than American Roast.

Aroma

An important category used by professional tasters in judging coffee; a fine coffee should have a pleasant fragrance when hot and freshly brewed.

Flavored Coffee

Coffees that have been mixed with flavoring agents while in their roasted whole bean state.

Froth

Also known as foam, froth describes milk that has been rendered thick and foamy by aeration with hot steam.

Organic Coffee

Coffee that has been certified by a third-party agency as having been grown without the use of pesticides, herbicides or similar chemicals. Buying organic supports a safe environment for the farmers and their families as well as for the ecology of the earth.

Source of terms: http://www.coffeeserviceplus.com/gl-o.html

Questions:

What is the process to turn a coffee bean into a drink?  The beans have to get ground up, and then you put the ground up coffee in the coffee pot, in a filter, and than the water runs through the ground up beans, and than it makes coffee.

How much caffeine is in an average size cup of coffee? 40-150 mg

How much profit did Starbucks earn last year?

Which countries export the most coffee  beans? Brazil

How are coffee beans harvested?    When a coffee fruit changes from a greenish to a reddish color, this means the seeds – a.k.a. beans – are ready to be harvested. The pulpy heap is then separated from the beans through a special procedure (either wet or dry). Nasty beans are disposed of throughout this stage.

After the beans are finished processing, they are roasted and marked according to their color: light, medium, dark, etc. Finally, they are stored and shipped to their various destinations to be brewed into coffee.

Sources of deffenitions: http://www.suite101.com/content/how-coffee-is-made-a214629

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee

 

Today in class we talked about  coffee.  We talked about the different kinds of coffee drinks that people enjoy.  We also discussed how expensive a cup of coffee can be, especially a special coffee drink.  Mr. Schick told us what kind of coffee he likes to drink and how ridiculous he thinks coffee prices are.  Then we watched a video about coffee production.  It showed how coffee beans are processed from a plant to a drink.

Notes from the movie:

Coffee is the most heavily traded crop in the world

Coffee grows in hot tropical places

Place were coffee grows in the united states: Hawaii

Big difference between regular coffee and specially coffee

Lots of African countries that produce coffee