MANE Conference: Espresso Extraction
Members of the A&E Coffee Roastery & Tea wholesale team traveled down to Providence RI to attend the MANE Coffee Conference. They took extensive notes and compiled them to share. NOTE, a few rabbit holes may be explored, but who does not like to get caught up...
Brewing the perfect cuppa
Next time you’re settling in with your favorite cup of comfort tea, close your eyes before you sip, and inhale. Your senses will give you your first clue as to why tea has, for centuries, been equated with relaxation and a sense of wellbeing. Most tea aficionados have...
The Tea Tree
We all know tea is made from steeping tea leaves. But not everyone has considered where those leaves come from, or that there are two main varieties of tea trees from which the many varieties of tea originate. Tea is made from the leaf of the tea tree, scientifically...
The story of tea
Tea goes by many different names: te, tee, teh, cha, chai, caj, cay. Its history is as long and complicated as it is beautiful. The origin of the legend of tea goes back as far as 2737 B.C. The Emperor of China, Shan Nong, boiled his drinking water. One day, while...
So, how does the coffee bean get from the plant to your cup?
The vast majority of specialty Arabica coffee cherries are harvested by hand. It takes about 4,000 cherries to make one pound of roasted coffee. (Since there are usually two beans per cherry, that is about 2,000 beans per pound.) A peaberry, which occurs when only one...
Gauging quality of Coffee Arabica beans: Sticks and stones – and quakers?
Last time we talked a little about the origin of coffee beans, and how they’re used in mass production of coffee versus what we do, which is small-batch roasting. In recent years there’s been a shift among the more “refined” canned coffee companies to use Arabica...