The Coffee Dictionary: An A-Z of coffee, from growing & roasting to brewing & tasting

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To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. The amount of sugar present increases as the coffee cherry ripens – reinforcing the requirement to only pick ripe cherries! The staff is some of the friendliest around, and the literal cottage-core aesthetic makes it a cozy place to get caffeinated before a day exploring downtown Phoenix. Whether you’re an outlaw on the run or trying to get to work on time, you’re going to need a good breakfast.

I had a conversation with Ben de la Garza and Taylor Benjamin de la Garza (brothers) from Sonoita Coffee Roasters a few weeks ago and came away with these interesting tidbits.Nitro coffee: Cold brew coffee injected with nitrogen from capsules to produce a velvety, smooth brew similar in texture to a stout beer.

SPECIALITY COFFEE Speciality coffee is distinguished by the quality of its raw material and represents 10% of all coffee grown worldwide. In fact, the beverage was developed in Italy in the 80’s as a way for baristas to identify a plain espresso and one with milk added. ACIDITY Acidity is referred to in differed ways in coffee, such as a brightness, a tartness or a liveliness that carries the high notes of a flavour. HIGH-GROWN Arabica coffee grown at altitudes of 3,000 feet and beyond is usually superior in taste quality to coffee grown downslope and is known as ‘high grown’.Produced from Civet cats eating coffee cherries and the coffee beans are collected from their faeces. Latte’s often come with a variety of delicious flavour choices too, ranging from vanilla to hazelnut. However, there’s been much debate about where it originated from with some saying Australia, others New Zealand. Scales: A coffee scale is a device used to weigh coffee beans and grounds, espresso extraction as well as time manual pour-over brewing methods.