Thursday, May 26, 2011

Coffee Is Not Just A Drink

Coffee is not just a tasty beverage and scented favors, but behind it, activity of drinking coffee can also be a symbol of peace and calm situations. If situation of country is safe so people can calmly go to the coffee shop with ease, you read Myths About Coffee and History of Coffee last time ago.

Choose coffee as we are looking for a partner because people have different preference. So we can not say which coffee is more delicious because people have different preference.
In general, there are two species of coffee, arabica and robusta. Arabica has a flavor that is more complex because it is more adaptable to the soil environment. So if arabica planted in the ground of Lintong Sumatra, Bali and Java, the coffee produced will conform with the levels of nutrients in the soil. While robusta is not as complex as arabica because not very adaptive, but it is resistant to pests.

Price of robusta coffee in international markets can be half of price of arabica. Strangely in Indonesia, although including the largest coffee exporter in the world, but about 80% of exported coffee is robusta. Though the land is planted to robusta is also suitable for arabica. So why such a pity. And if we can replace robusta with arabica then we can get higher income from farm level to the foreign exchange earnings.

For some people, coffee shop is representing a particular cultural intercourse. People go to the coffee shop do not necessarily like coffee but to be there get happy fun and give an image. Irvan and his colleagues did not begin from the image.

Outside the social story about coffee, there are many more stories. For example, regarding the quality of coffee. It is associated Bondowoso, East Java. Apparently quality of coffee there is very high. To determine the quality of coffee then we must know the character of coffee, it's body or viscosity of coffee. Second, the aroma of coffee. Rarely there are no people who do not like the smell of coffee. Even people who do not drink coffee, they still like the smell of coffee. Not only that, Indonesia is a country that has the most coffee region in the world.

Where's region in Indonesia which has famous coffee?

The area is famous in Lintong south Sumatra Aceh, Lampung, Mandailing (North Sumatra), in Java island is in Bondowoso (East Java), and in South Sulawesi is in Toraja-Kalosi, Bali-Kintamani, Papua - Wamena, Flores and others.

If you want to know about the difference of two types coffee arabica and robusta, maybe below expanation will add your knowlegde:

Arabica and robusta coffee are the name of a different species. Arabica has a flavor that is more complex because it is more adaptable to the soil environment. So if arabica planted in the ground of Lintong Sumatra, Bali and Java, the coffee produced will conform with the levels of nutrients in the soil. Taste of the coffee will have high levels of acid (acid), and the body depending on the soil nutrients. Meanwhile robusta is not as complex as arabica because not very adaptive, but it's is resistant to pests. We rarely hear Java robusta, Lampung robusta because their taste almost same. Beyond of that sense, there is level of caffeine level that stimulates the brain in order to "on".

Is caffeine content already in its coffee or is a chemical substance added and subtracted? That chemical is contained in coffee. So there is not a human touch that reduce and add it.

Which one is delicious coffee among Toraja coffee and others?
Coffee is like we are looking for a partner because people have different preferences. We can not say which the most delicious coffee. Coffee lovers who like to drink coffee usually they wants black coffee. If we drink coffee with cream and sugar it is called instead of coffee because it tastes sweet. Black coffee is bitter. Why should not mix?

Well that's it. We must train our tongues. On some coffee cafe, there is a cupping session to try different types of coffee. If the world's wine its name testing wine. Here, we look for coffee character, concentration, and body. We use sweetener (sweetness) instead of sugar because we do not mix coffee with sugar. But more sweetener to flavor caramel or the burning of carbohydrates into sugar (fructose) that tastes like caramel, lingers on the sidelines of the teeth. That's what we're looking for. That's natural. Meanwhile Toraja Kalosi coffee had hints of acidity and there are also hints of chocolaty.

How could we distinguish between Greece, Italy, and others coffee? and why Luwak coffee is delicious?
The short story is that the farmer or an ordinary person picking coffee for sale, then he must think of quantity due to their financial needs. But if mongoose, which is a kind of weasel-like animal with teeth, will take the most mature coffee or the sweetest because for their own consumption. Now the most ripe coffee beans and the sweetest have taste of coffee which are optimal. Optimal flavor is the body and sweetness has emerged. The most rare in the coffee is sweetness.

Coffee fruit is eaten and destroyed in the stomach by digestive of mongoose. So, it's only leaving the coffee beans and shells that can not be digested. Well, coffee bean which cover by shell was issued as stool (faeces) mongoose. Well it sought under the tree.

So it's a natural process carried out by a mongoose, not because the coffee was undergoing a process of chemical. Logically reason is because coffee is chosen optimally by mongoose. If mongoose eat the coffee but the coffee is not sweet, then it will vomit it.

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