Costa Rican Coffee

In many peopleÂ’s opinion, Costa Rican is one of the worldÂ’s greatest coffees, with its light, clean flavor and wonderful fragrance. Most Costa Rican coffee comes from the modern hybrid caturra, which yields large quantities of good coffee. With its medium body, sharp acidity, cuppers often describe a Costa Rican coffee as having the perfect balance.

Costa Rica, with its rich, well-drained, volcanic soil, was the first Central American country to grow coffee and bananas on a commercial basis, and both commodities are among its major exports. Coffee was introduced to Costa Rica, from Cuba, in 1729. Today the industry is one of the best organized in the world with a high yield of around 1,520 pounds per acre. The good, highly consistent coffee represents about 25% of the countryÂ’s export earnings.

Only arabica beans are grown in Costa Rica-growing robusta coffee is illegal. Good Costa Rican coffee is labeled “SHB” (strictly hard bean) - which means that it has been grown at an altitude above 5,000 feet. Higher altitudes produce better beans, not only because they have the effect of increasing the acidity of the bean and thereby improving the flavor, but also because the cold nights that occur at the higher altitudes mean that the trees develop more slowly, which allows the beans to develop a fuller flavor.

Costa Rican coffee is best roasted at medium, but can be high roasted. While Costa Rican coffee can be enjoyed at anytime of the day, it is most often paired with chocolate desserts and cookies.

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Colombian Coffee

Coffee was first introduced to Colombia in 1808, when trees were brought by a clergyman from the French Antilles via Venezuela. Today the country is the second largest producing country in the world after Brazil, with an annual production of 13 million 130 pound bags compared with Brazil’s 22 million bags. The importance of coffee to the national economy may be gauged from the fact that all cars entering the country are sprayed so that they do not inadvertently introduce disease that might damage the coffee plants.

Colombian coffee is one of the few original coffees sold all over the world under its own name. No other coffee has achieved that degree of consumer regard for its quality. It is the world’s largest exporter of Arabica beans—very little robusta is grown.

The coffee-producing areas lie among the foothills of the Andes, where the climate is temperate and moist. The hilly terrain provides a wide variety of microclimates, which mean that the harvesting season can last for almost the whole year, as different plantings ripen at different times.
Colombian coffee is often described as silky and it is one of the best balanced of all coffees.
Because of its great balance it is considered a versatile coffee for all uses. Colombian coffee is a great coffee to be drank at any time of the day. The suggested roast for Colombian is medium to high. Colombian is described as a full bodied, mellow superbly balanced coffee with a slight nutty flavor.

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Kona Blend Coffee

The Kona bean has more luster and is more perfectly proportioned than any other coffee bean. The flavor is rich, almost nutty and is unusually full-bodied, with a fine aroma. Some tasters detect cinnamon tones in the smooth, even flavor. Kona coffee may truly be described as luscious.

It is the only top-quality coffee to be produced within the fifty states, and the largest market is, naturally, to the U.S. mainland. Among all coffee producers, the Hawaiian industry is among the most tightly regulated and has the highest labor costs, although it does enjoy the best investment levels.

The coffee trees in Hawaii have to compete for space with the demands of the tourist industry, and the coffee is actually grown on the slopes of Mauna Loa, a volcano in the western Kona district of the island of Hawaii, in an area about 20 miles long, with production concentrated in the north and south of the region.

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