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Good news, bad news for coffee prices.

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Although reports indicate that the base price of coffee as a commodity held up comparatively well over the past year (ie it ROSE instead of fell over the year), the current trend is solidly downward on coffee prices. That means bad news for all you commodities brokers and good news for the rest [...]

How To Brew Perfect Drip Coffee

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Most coffee machines are actually drip coffee makers, but the coffee they make is by necessity an average cup of coffee – although the Technivorm Moccamaster tries awfully hard to avoid the problems. The issues is that drip coffee making – dripping hot water through grounds and a filter – is  a method that requires [...]

Brewing a perfect cup of coffee – Basic Coffee Machine Method

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For our ‘Brewing a perfect cup of coffee’ series, we are going to stick with the basics and assume no special equipment. In the case of the basic coffee machine method this means you have to use the basic coffee machine you have. No need to rush out and buy anything. We are [...]

Early Coffee Growing And Consumption

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One thing is for certain – cultivation of coffee DID begin in Ethiopia and was then spread by the Arabic  world as it expanded rapidly around 1100 AD. From the Arabic world. Coffee was traded into Europe and India. The very first consumption of coffee was in solid form – grinding beans into [...]

The Origins Of Coffee

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The History Of Coffee

Coffee is everywhere nowadays. Spread by its success as a legal stimulant and by the aggressive marketing of companies like Starbucks, it is pretty hard to find anywhere in the world that doesn’t have ready access to coffee of some sort. But coffee means different things to different people, cultures [...]