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Coffee Making Equipment
Making Coffee
Coffee Drinks
Coffee Roasting and Processing
Coffee Types and Definitions
History of Coffee
Miscellaneous Coffee Information
Coffee Making Equipment
Coffee Percolator
A coffee percolator, caffettiera, is a type of pot used to brew coffee...
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Coffeemaker
A coffeemaker is a small kitchen appliance used to make drip brew-style coffee
without having to boil water...
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Drip Brew
Drip brew is a method for brewing coffee which involves pouring water over coffee
contained in a filter...
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Espresso Machine
An espresso machine is used to produce the traditionally Italian coffee beverage called espresso...
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French Press
A French press, also known as a press pot or cafetière, is a French coffee- or tea-brewing device...
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Siphon Coffee
Siphon Coffee is a coffee prepared with a siphon coffee brewer. It is also
known as syphon coffee or vacuum coffee...
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Turkish Coffee
Turkish coffee (Turkish: Türk kahvesi ),is a specific way of preparing
coffee. It is common throughout the Middle East, North Africa and Balkan countries...
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Vacuum Coffee
Vacuum Coffee is a coffee prepared with a vacuum coffee brewer (Vac Pot).
It is also known as siphon or syphon coffee...
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Making Coffee
Coffee Preparation
The processing of coffee typically refers to the agricultural and industrial processes
needed to deliver whole roasted coffee beans to the consumer...
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Coffee Drinks
Americano
Americano (also café americano) is a style of coffee prepared by
adding hot water to espresso, giving a similar strength but different
flavor than regular coffee...
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Cappuccino
Cappuccino is an Italian beverage, prepared with espresso and milk...
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Espresso
Espresso (Italian) is a flavourful coffee beverage brewed by forcing very hot
but not boiling water under high pressure, through coffee that has been ground
to a consistency between extremely fine and powder...
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Latte
Latte is Italian for milk. In English-speaking countries it usually refers to
one of several types of coffee beverages made with hot milk...
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Coffee Drink Basics
by Gary Gresham
When you enter a coffee house, you have a multitude of drink choices like latte, cappuccino,
straight shot and caffe mocha just to name a few...
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Coffee Roasting and Processing
Coffee Roasting
Roasting coffee is the transformation of the chemical and physical properties
of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products...
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Coffee Processing
Want to brew the perfect cup of coffee?
Here are 3 simple tips that will make a difference in every single cup you drink...
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Home Roasting Coffee
Home roasting refers to the process of buying green coffee beans and roasting
them in your own home...
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Instant Coffee
Instant coffee is a beverage derived from coffee. Through various manufacturing
processes the coffee is dehydrated into the form of either powder or granules...
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Coffee Roasting De-mystified
by Andy White
How many different names have you run across for different types of coffee roasts? Light, Medium, Dark?
Espresso? Continental? Vienna, French, Italian, Spanish? City? Full-City? C'mon, who's thinking up these things?...
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How Coffee is Decaffeinated
by Paul Ballenger
First, let's start with a really quick history. Coffee was first decaffeinated by Ludwig Roselius,
a German coffee merchant, in 1905 after he received a coffee shipment that had gotten soaked during a storm at sea...
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Coffee Types and Definitions
Coffea Arabica
Coffea arabica is a species of coffee indigenous to Ethiopia. It is also
known as the "coffee shrub of Arabia", "mountain coffee" or "arabica coffee"...
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Coffea Robusta
Coffea canephora (Robusta Coffee; syn.Coffea robusta) is a species of
coffee which has its origins in western Africa...
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Coffee Varietals
Coffee beans from two different places usually have distinctive characteristics such
as flavor (flavor criteria includes terms such as "citrus-like" or "earthy"), caffeine
content, body or mouthfeel, and acidity...
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Choosing the Perfect Cup of Coffee
by Rachel Medlock
There used to be three choices for coffee lovers at their local supermarket: Folgers, Maxwell House, or the store brand...
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History of Coffee
Coffee
Coffee is a beverage, served hot or with ice, prepared from the roasted seeds
of the coffee plant. These seeds are almost always called coffee beans...
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History of Coffee: Part I - Africa and Arabia
by James Grierson
The coffee plant originates from the highland forests of Ethiopia. It is believed that the first
plants were found growing wild in the region of Kaffa, where coffee derives its name from...
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History of Coffee: Part V - Speciality Coffee
by James Grierson
With the large multi-national coffee companies focused purely on coffee as a commodity rather then a drink to be
savoured, it allowed a new sector to emerge in the coffee industry: Speciality Coffee...
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Miscellaneous Coffee Information
Barista
The term barista, the Italian word for "bartender" - masculine or feminine;
plural: baristi (masculine) or bariste (feminine), has been used in English
to denote a maker of espresso based beverages...
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Demitasse
A demitasse is a small cup (typically about 2 or 3 fl oz / 60 ml) used to
serve turkish coffee or espresso...
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Coffees of India
by Steve Smith
India produces two fine coffees, but even among coffee devotees - at least in America -
they remain relatively unknown and un-drunk...
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The Coffee Culture in the USA
by Remko de Knikker
It wasn't until I moved to the US that I started drinking coffee regularly and became what they call in the
Netherlands a 'koffieleut', which translates literally into 'coffee socialite.'...
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