The Coffee Roasting Process

You will need a Keurig B70 Gourmet Single-Cup Home Brewing System which uses flavored k-cups to get the most out of your bean. Endothermic is the first stage in roasting coffee beans. From the red berries, it will be picked by hand and washed with freshwater to remove the remaining residue. The beans will be extracted. The green beans will slowly dry until it turns into yellow which begin to smell like toast or popcorn.

The next step is also called the first crack. Each bean will double its size from approximately 205C (400F), the color will become light brown and it loses weight of approximately 5%.

Then it will rise up to 220C and change its color to medium brown. Approximately 13% weight loss will occur because of the heated temperature. Characterized by a change in the chemical composition is called pyrolysis, a chemical process of the bean as well as the release of carbon dioxide.

After this step it is automatically followed by a short endothermic then immediately followed by another exothermic (second crack). On the second pyrolysis which occurs between 225-230C it will change its color from medium brown into medium-dark brown. The second pyrolysis is much quicker.

Maximizing in roasting will also maximize the sweetness and aroma of your coffee while the bitterness and acidity that is minimized is called Espresso potential. Most people prefer their coffee as black roast extreme but the espresso will never be delicious. And because of the unpopularity of straight espresso, the espresso based drinks such as milk or other flavors to replace the sweetness during dark roasting became popular.

Sugars in coffee begin to caramelize from 170-200C. And coffee will be labeled into light, medium light, medium dark, dark or very dark as preferred by the coffee consumer. Lighter coffee has more caffeine than the darker roast coffee because of it's smoother with less fiber for your everyday diet.

Other drinks that can be made include tea t-discs.

Let me tell you a story of a man who loves coffee. Let me tell you about Tony. Tony loves coffee, which is not so hard to see. He used a West Bend 56204 Single-Cup Personal Coffee Maker to make his brew.

He starts his day with a cup or two of his favorite coffee. One day some gentleman offered him tea from the alley. He said, "No, thank you Sir but I would rather have some coffee?" He even likes Seattle's Best t-discs or French vanilla k-cups to get his day started.

His love for coffee knows no bounds and no limits that's for sure, one day Tony exchanged a lot of hidden treasure for coffee. To make things worse, he said it was his pleasure. Tony's like of coffee started becoming disturbing.

One time, he stopped eating because of coffee. It was alarming and very strange his obsession for beans. His family made arrangements to have Tony to be taken away and put inside a house of hallow beams.

The different facets of coffee

Yes, some people do experience things. Even though coffee is the number one companion and drink of choice for people who want more out of life, too much can kill you. Before I scare you away with the bad things that your favorite concoction can bring, let first look at the different possibilities.

Coffee in many societies acts as the catalyst of social non-alcoholic drinking. People gathering in common places for a little afternoon chitchat, they would have coffee served rather than alcoholic drinks.

In business meetings, coffee is served first to break whatever tension business has brought into the agenda. So what else can we do with coffee?

Coffee like chocolate has properties that have been recently discovered to be good for man. Antioxidants found in every cup of coffee helps in digestion and help the body to have better metabolism. These properties are just some of the things coffee brings. Can we have other presentations of coffee to make it more exciting and make it more flexible?

Just recently, companies that manufacture candy products for children are venturing in to the adult market. The company aims to corner the market with a new product, the coffee candy. This may seem like a very simple idea but a very solid concept.

It is a well-known fact that a lot of people are solid coffee drinkers, and because of that idea the people behind the coffee candy banked on the idea that they can make coffee flavored candies for people who crave the taste.

Convenience was the key for the makers and it is a feature that some people were looking for in coffee. People will now have the convenience of brewed coffee inside their pockets.