When we started our coffee journey in 2022, we didn't know that we would be enjoying this today. To be honest, the only thing we know about coffee are those that every household have and drink every day, the instant coffees.
Fast forward today, we reached a lot of places, improved our speaking and sales skills and we get to learn a lot from coffee beans to espresso machines to the different coffee beverage we can actually create.
Here are some of the things we learned since we started:
* Coffee plants are planted in different level of elevation and it depends on the variety of coffee. Like for example, robusta are found on low level altitudes while arabica are found in higher altitudes.
* Coffee can adopt the taste and aroma of the crops that were previously planted on the soil. For coffee experts, they can easily identify different taste, calling it notes, and the most common being the jackfruit and citrusy after taste from lime or lemon.
* Coffee has unique tastes and goes well when blended although some prefer it 100% of the same variety when extracting their espresso. Robusta for example is most commonly used as raw materials for instant coffees and they're known to have more caffeine content which is the reason for its bitterness. Arabica, on the other hand, is known for its acidity. So, when combined together, the tastes compliment each other producing a really good cup of coffee.
* Coffee, when extracted by an espresso machine, will have different taste depending on the temperature applied. Like for example, the same batch of coffee at 93 degrees may not have the same taste when extracted at 95 degrees.
* Roasting plays an important role in making a perfectly good batch of coffee for espresso machines.
* When grinding coffee beans, the grind size matters. However, it would still depend on the palate of the coffee drinker to say that a cup of coffee is really good which is pretty much their "sweet spot".
In all honesty, the coffee industry is quite unique. The more you indulge in it, the more you learn about it and it just doesn't end.
