Coffee Lexicon

The Costa Rica 95 variety(short: CR95) forms a coffee plant of small stature, with an average to small bean size. The plant usually bears its first crop after about 3...

Jamaican Blue Mountain coffees are among the most expensive coffees in the world.Especially the exceptional flavor profile and quality are respected worldwide, but this is also reflected in the price....

Coffee chaff is the dry, flaky protective skin of the seed of a coffee bean and falls off as a byproduct of roasting coffee. The chaff is usually discarded, but...

In general, green coffee is the unroasted coffee beans. Since we roast fresh weekly, we receive the raw, unroasted beans (green coffee) from our long-term partners via direct trade.But why...

Let's start at the beginning: What is fermentation and what happens to the coffee during fermentation?You can think of the fermentation process as being similar to the refinement of grape...

The Bloom Project is an initiative of Neumann Kaffee Gruppe (NKG), whose self-imposed goal is to set the supply chain in such a way that the survival of coffee farmers...

The popular Indian drink "masala chai," Hindi for "spiced tea" (yes, you said "tea"), is a warming milk tea infused with a blend of aromatic spices. Originally used as an...

"Dirty Chai." We all wrinkled our noses a bit when we first heard that. Simply actually it is a chai latte with a shot of espresso. And it's actually pretty...

It's been ringing in fall since 2003: the Pumpkin Spice Latte. A cozy drink of espresso, frothed milk and PSL syrup, topped with whipped cream and pumpkin pie spice.Pumpkin Spice...

Coffee is a multifaceted beverage; the interplay of origin, cultivation altitude, variety, processing and roasting is highly complex, because every change in one of these variables affects the taste in...

Cupping is a fundamental term in the coffee industry. Cupping is a standardized method of brewing and tasting coffee without "distorting" the taste through the brewing method. It is used...

You've probably seen latte macchiato and espresso macchiato side by side on a coffee menu. But what's the difference between the two? Although they sound similar, you're getting two very...