Gourmet Coffee and Gourmet Coffee Beans

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Welcome to Long Island Gourmet Coffee…. Long Island Gourmet Coffee is the place on the web where you can kick off your shoes and enjoy a cup of coffee. Browse our site for some interesting titbits about gourmet coffee, coffee cultivation and my favorite gadgets to make that perfect cuppa.

 

What is Gourmet Coffee?

I don’t really know what gourmet coffee is, but I like the sound of it. Yeah, I just showed myself to be a coffee lover, but not an expert or connoisseur.

To me, all coffee is gourmet, as long as it is strong, flavoursome, rich and not instant. That doesn’t mean I don’t have my favorites. But, before I talk about my favourite coffees, let’s have a brief look at what makes coffee gourmet in the eyes of the “experts.”

From what I understand the term gourmet coffee is used when the coffee is made from the highest quality coffee beans. Other factors that come into play are the cultivation and processing of the coffee beans.  Gourmet coffee beans are cultivated and processed in such a way as to ensure that the distinctive and unique taste and aroma are preserved.

 

Coffee plant types

There are many different coffee plant types in the world. When it comes to commercial production there are generally three main coffee plant types. These are Arabica (Coffea arabica), Robusta (Coffea canephora var. robusta), and Liberica (Coffea liberica).

Now, what does this have to do with gourmet coffee? Well, most of the world’s gourmet coffees are produced from Arabica coffee beans.

 

 

My favorite coffee

I prefer an Americano, mostly because a pure Espresso is often too strong for my taste buds. Even though I occasionally enjoy a Cappuccino or Latte I do feel that milk distract from the taste of the coffee.

So, as to the question of my favorite coffee, it has to be the Tanzanian Peaberry Coffee. The coffee beans are grown on Mt. Meru and Mt. Kilimanjaro. The coffee has a medium body and deep and rich taste.

An interesting fact about the Tanzania Peaberry coffee is that it is made from peaberries, which are whole coffee beans as opposed to the two half-beans from which most coffee is made.

My other favorites are Java Arabica Coffee, which is grown on the Indonesian island of Java and the Mocha Java Coffee, which is a blend of Arabian Mocha coffee and Indonesian Java Arabica coffee.

 

Finally

Gourmet coffee or just coffee – I need my daily coffee and as long as my morning coffee is good quality, freshly brewed coffee, I am happy.

I Love Coffee…

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