me and coffee #1
Five most expensive Coffee beans in the world:
Kopi Luwak: It is the most expensive coffee beans in the world now. “Kopi” means coffee in Indonesia. Luwak is a kind of animal that loves to eat the coffee berry. Luwak cannot digest the seeds (beans). This process forms the basis of the bean.
La Esmeralda: This coffee is well known as the ‘Esmeralda Special” The beans are produced at the farm Esmeralda Jaramillo in the mountains of West Panama.
St. Helena Coffee: it is produced of the island of Saint Helena. The coffee is made form the Arabica. Arabica beans are small and more expensive than other regular beans because it is less produced than others.
Fazenda Santa Ines coffee: It comes from Minas Gerais in Brazil. It is named after where it is produced from, which is Fazenda Santa Ines Farm. Its specialness is that the whole process to produce this coffee is totally traditional, no automated involved. It’s great taste is characterized by the sweetness of caramel and berries.
Blue mountain coffee: It is produced on the east side of Blue Mountains in Jamaica. Its specialness is the mild taste without any bitterness, and this beans is also the base of the liquor Tia Maria.
I never try any of them before. My journey of coffee fantasy was started with my first espresso back at home. My friend invited me to Starbucks and ordered me a espresso. My first impression to it was like “ OMG It is too strong, even more bitter than the Chinese herbal medicine. I never wanna to drink it again” My friend asked me to not just drink it but taste it. By “taste it” he meant to identify the level of the sweetness in that sip. I finally find behind the extreme bitter, there is this fruity fragemance hiding behind. It went up from my taste buds to nose, my brian, finally made me remember the taste of sweet and forgot about the bitter.
Manual brew systems are the affordable way to us the daily coffee drinkers. The manual systems are including French Press, Mocha Pot and Dripping. Before the espresso machine was invented, people were brewing their coffee at home with those tools.
I just had my own espresso machine but before it, I was using mocha pot. The reason I choose mocha pot over dripping because dripping takes too long, I am the kind of person that lack of patient. I used to have a French Press at home until my mom use it as a tea pot, it works but then, I realized it looks more like a tea pot to me, so I stop using it.
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