Not much to add here! This is from Columbia and the coffee is being roasted in a big pan over a charcoal fire. We are already pretty far along in the roast when we see this video – I’d personally be pulling the beans off the heat at the beginning of the video or even [...] Related posts:

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I’d guess that most people if asked would say that coffee was probably not so great for their liver, maybe not terrible or anything, but not great. WRONG! Turns out, according to the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, that coffee is extremely protective of your liver. Of course, if, like me, [...] No related posts.]]> http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/coffee-and-your-liver/feed/ 1 http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/global-coffee-prices-and-is-fair-trade-fair/ http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/global-coffee-prices-and-is-fair-trade-fair/#comments Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:55:47 +0000 admin http://www.getin2coffee.com/?p=87 Image by Karl O’Brien via Flickr

Most people assume, once they look into it, that Fair Trade coffee is a good thing because it guarantees a base level price to coffee growers – and a price that is typically above the base market level. Sounds great, right?

And for the most part, it is. But there is [...] Related posts:

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One of the great mysteries of coffee are the myriad of chemical reactions that occur inside the bean as coffee is roasted. Every coffee is different because they start with different bioflavinoids, esters and other complex organic compounds within the bean. But roasting then changes all these compounds at different levels. In fact, [...] Related posts:

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Nestor Osorio, Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, i s concerned that coffee production this year is not going to meet demand – by about 480 million kilos or pretty close to one billion pounds. That led me to an interesting question. How much coffee do we actually drink globally?

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The news is a-buzz. Consumer Reports has picked the best ground coffee and it isn’t (shock) Starbucks!!!!!

While it is somewhat interesting that a properly conducted taste test did pick out a ground coffee winner, let’s all take a deep breath and a step back.

First off, the test looked only at 100% Columbian. [...] No related posts.]]> http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/what-is-the-best-coffee/feed/ 0 http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/rwanda-boosts-coffee-growing-even-more/ http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/rwanda-boosts-coffee-growing-even-more/#comments Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:46:12 +0000 admin http://www.getin2coffee.com/?p=43 Image by tonx via Flickr

In 2008, the Rwanda Coffee Development Authority (Ocir-Cafe) distributed four million coffee tree seedlings to growers in the country in order to boost production and try to meet its ambitious goal of creating $120 million in export receipts by 2011. The plan is to produce 35,000 to 40,000 tonnes of coffee.

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In another piece of news about the health benefits of coffee, a Danish study shows that subjects who had reported drinking three to five cups of coffee daily were 65 percent less likely to have developed dementia, compared with those who drank two cups or less.

We do wish that the study reports [...] No related posts.]]> http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/coffee-wards-off-dementia/feed/ 0 http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/our-guess-coffee-prices-are-going-up/ http://www.getin2coffee.com/2009/our-guess-coffee-prices-are-going-up/#comments Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:39:30 +0000 admin http://www.getin2coffee.com/?p=34 Image via Wikipedia

The world coffee news this week is that coffee futures are on the rise by several percentage points. What this means in normal terms is that traders expect the wholesale price of coffee to go up. That will in turn be passed on to the consumer and we can all expect the price [...] Related posts:

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Angola, one of the many war-battered central African countries, is to invest $150 million back into its own coffee producing industry. In the sixties and seventies Angola was one of the larger coffee producers in Africa, exporting up to 200,000 tonnes of coffee per year. Three years ago there was only one coffee [...] Related posts:

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