Tag Archive 'Robusta'
Posted by TheShot on 18 May 2007 | Tagged as: Coffee Health, Robusta
The uncontrollable urge to assign shamanic powers of eternal life or instant death to coffee are still in full bloom. Last December, we reported on the UK introduction of CoffeeSlender (a.k.a. Café Bulimia), a coffee drink that claimed to help consumers lose weight through something called Svetol — a derivative of green coffee beans. Today [...]
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Tags: coffee_health, Robusta, weight_loss
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Posted by TheShot on 21 Mar 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Quality Issues, Robusta
David Lebovitz is a fairly well-known pastry chef and foodie who launched his career through a long tour of duty at Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Lately he’s taken on a great interest in making the kind of espresso he can get in Italy — but not in the U.S. as easily. Following his pursuit of [...]
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Tags: coffee_blending, coffee_roasting, espresso_training, illy, Robusta, Starbucks
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Posted by TheShot on 27 Feb 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade
Today the Chicago Maroon, an independent student newspaper of the University of Chicago, published a curious indictment of the Fair Trade movement: Chicago Maroon » Hurting the third world one latte at a time. Being the University of Chicago, the author takes a more world economic view of the issue. While I completely disagree with [...]
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Tags: coffee_growers, fair_trade, Robusta, vietnam_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 11 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Beans, Machine, Quality Issues, Restaurant Coffee, Robusta
Tomorrow’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution nails it with this article headline: Espresso done right is intense — a full-bodied, stop-time moment to savor | ajc.com. Somewhat surprisingly, what follows the headline isn’t half bad either. The author, John Kessler, goes on to note how rare a decent espresso is in this country — and in fancy restaurants [...]
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Tags: atlanta, caffeine, coffee_blends, coffee_sizes, espresso_machines, overextraction, Robusta, sending_back_espresso, wine_analogy
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Posted by TheShot on 08 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Fair Trade, Restaurant Coffee, Starbucks
Yesterday’s Sunday Times (London) ran a story concerning McDonald’s UK’s announcement of a coffee supply partnership with the Rainforest Alliance: McDonald’s brews up £1m fair trade deal – Sunday Times – Times Online. At first read, I opted not to add a blog entry on how the Rainforest Alliance served as another alternative example to [...]
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Tags: big_four_coffee, coffee_marketing, fair_trade, mcdonalds, press_releases, public_relations, Robusta, sustainability, uk_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 13 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Fair Trade, Foreign Brew, Robusta
In response to the precipitous rise of specialty coffee in recent years, coffee’s traditional Big Four (Nestlé, Sara Lee, Kraft, and Proctor & Gamble) — rather than compete by raising their quality standards — responded instead by seeking cheaper bean stocks to squeeze out more profits. The Vietnamese robusta coffee market rode the wave of [...]
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Tags: big_four_coffee, coffee_growers, fair_trade, Robusta, vietnam_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 29 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Robusta
As Frank Sinatra once sang, “They got a lot of coffee in Brazil”. However, the driest winter in two decades is threatening to drop next year’s crop yield by almost a third: Brazilian drought leaves coffee crop high and dry | Chron.com – Houston Chronicle. As the reality of global climate change sinks in, one [...]
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Tags: brazil_coffee, coffee_growers, coffee_supplies, global_warming, Robusta
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Posted by TheShot on 09 Nov 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Quality Issues, Robusta
Decaffeinated coffee was once treated a lot like robusta: as some kind of crude, faux coffee that caters to consumers with the misfortune of a biological defect. But just as high-quality, expertly prepared robusta beans started appearing on the market from places such as India (for blending into quality roasts for espresso, etc.), decaf coffee [...]
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Tags: caffeine, decaf_coffee, moka_pot, ritual_roasters, Robusta, stumptown
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Posted by TheShot on 31 Oct 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Foreign Brew
Here’s a shocker. In today’s news, Vietnam seems to have suddenly discovered that much of their coffee is of utter crap quality: Viet Nam News | Coffee quality drops off alarmingly. What’s curious is that the article seems taken aback by the discovery that Vietnamese coffee might not be the richest coffee in the world, [...]
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Tags: big_four_coffee, Robusta, vietnam_coffee
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Posted by TheShot on 05 Sep 2006 | Tagged as: Beans, Robusta
Although expectations of record robusta coffee bean prices were set months ago, it wasn’t until last month that the price of robusta reached a seven-year high in London. What’s next? Some say arabica beans, according to an article in today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Next hot commodity? Arabica coffee beans. With record robusta prices hitting the pocketbooks [...]
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Tags: arabica, big_four_coffee, coffee_beans, coffee_pricing, Robusta
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