Coffee Bean Species and Varieties

Author: Craig Elliott

The coffee beans we grind and use to brew coffee come from the Coffea evergreen bush, grown in over 50 countries around the globe. Each year, the Coffee bush flowers and develops a cherry-like fruit, inside which are typically two small seeds or coffee beans. There are 10 different species of Coffea bush, the first of which was discovered in Ethiopia some thousands of years ago.

Once man discovered the coffee bean, its cultivation and use spread to the Middle East, Europe, Asia and beyond. Today, much of the coffee we drink is made from beans that were grown in Latin America, Western Africa, Indonesia and the Philippines, and continental southeastern Asia.

Two species of coffee bean — Coffea Arabica and Canephora — constitute more than 90 percent of the coffee beans sold on the international market. Depending on the region, species of coffee, roasting, and preparation, coffee beans can infuse a cup of coffee with a variety of flavors and textures.

The seeds of the Coffea Arabica bush are grown all over the world and account for 75% of the coffee beans we use to make our hot beverages. Arabica beans are very flavorful and contain less caffeine than Canephora beans. Coffea Arabica bushes are grown principally in Western Africa and Latin America. Different regions of these countries are known for producing a different type of coffee bean; that is, a coffee bean lending a different flavor when brewed.

These different region types are called varietals. The climate, soil, weather, and particular plants and seeds give regions their distinctive coffee bean tastes. In Africa, Arabica bean cultivation can be found in Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, and the northern Muslim countries, among others.

Ethiopian coffee beans have an easy, smooth flavor and are delightfully accented by floral notes. Kenyan coffees are also smooth, but a bit tartier than Ethiopian beans. They have a pleasantly fruity aftertaste, as does coffee brewed from Tanzanian beans. These beans are a lovely afternoon coffee, with a milder texture and flavor than its northern counterparts.

A great variety of coffee bean flavors come from Latin America. Coffee beans grown in Brazil lend coffee a slightly bitter cocoa flavor with rich nutty undertones. A favorite of many, Columbian coffee is very rich and bold, a great morning coffee, with a thick, dark texture and a walnut finish.

Costa Rican coffee beans are similar to Brazilian, but have a lighter, sharper, almost tangy flavor. Mexico is also a great producer of coffee beans. The beans here vary in flavor and texture, from dry and light to thicker and deeper in complexion and flavor. Although many of the beans grown in Latin America are of the Arabica variety, some regions grow Canephora bushes. The seeds of the Coffea Canephora bush have fewer oils — and in lesser quantities — than Arabica beans do.

Less oil and higher acidity give coffees brewed from these beans a slightly more bitter quality. Despite this, Canephora is still a very popular coffee bean, used worldwide in cheap, canned coffee blends and expensive espresso roasts. Canephora beans typically have almost 50% more caffeine than Arabica beans.

Canephora beans are more widely cultivated in Asia than Arabica. These varietals are known for having a more acidic and bitter, although not unpleasant, flavor. Most of the coffee beans we use come from island nations in Asia, such as Sumatra and the island of Komodo.

Coffees brewed from these regional beans have a full texture and a slightly acrid, herbal flavor. Java and Kona varietals are especially popular and make a wonderful morning coffee due to their earthy, almost stringent quality.

Other factors that influence the taste of a coffee bean or cup of coffee are roasting methods and final preparation. As a rule of thumb, the greater the amount of time spent roasting, the darker, more full-bodied, and flavorful a coffee will be. Although coffee beans lose essential oils — and caffeine — during roasting, they change chemically during the roasting process, and acquire new, different and flavorful oils.

The darkest roast is known as Italian, which is preceded by French, Full City, City, American, and other, lighter coffee roasts. French roasts are used to make espresso, because they have a high oil content and low acidity.

City roast is common in western United States, and American roast is synonymous with eastern cities, including New York and Boston. These coffees are often produced using the drip method. Some people opt for a French press, the use of which results in a stronger flavor and oily texture. Using an espresso machine to brew coffee also lends the coffee a strong flavor, as well as higher caffeine content.

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A well know business lady Natalie Regoli – is having to suffer more than just her cancer – it seems her means of communicating is also being cut off.

I went to catch up with her tweets and read that Digg – have ignored the fact she was planning on naming her baby after them – has decided they don’t think her cancer story is news worthy enough for the people (like me that dug it) and removed it as spam.

Now twitter have decided to join in on kicking a pregnant women with cancer and suspend her twitter account for “strange activity”

What the F$*&! are these social networks on ? – If she was well enough, I rekon she’d have been able to stand her ground in this alone – I think this is just a bunch of blokes against a woman – they can only do her over when she’s ill.

I hope she gets over this whole thing as quick as possible and kicks your arses, you are disgusting.

Yeay! I’m glad they got it sorted out with google, I like this little marketing machine.  I’m sending this out as a blogwide update as it means I will probabley be adding 3CM back to the healthy coffee downline builder – I will add it as an exta program this time and keep global domains there too as a separate opportunity:

 

the e-mail from Dan – incase you missed it:

 

I write to you with great news... The 3 Cash Machine has been re-launched!

Google has finally lifted the 'Attack Site' warning and we've got the site back up and running. And it's going to be better then ever! 

During the time that the 3CM was down, we've gone through the site with a fine tooth comb and fixed a number of scripting issues. In particular, an issue that prevented a small number of people from signing up. So the sign up numbers should shoot through the roof this summer!!

As we have not been monitoring the support desk during the down time... our mailbox has filled up with over 15,000 emails. A lot of this is spam. So we're decided to delete all of these emails and start from scratch. Soooo... If you sent a support related email to us over the past 2 weeks, please go to your 'Sent Messages', find the email and resend it. 

I've been totally blown away by the response of the 3CM members over this past two weeks. I'm so very proud of you all!! Your letters of luck and encouragement have been a true inspiration. Thank you to all of you that wrote strong worded letters to Google. It just goes to show what strength in numbers can achieve. 

Finally - It was the 3CM's 1st birthday on Sunday (2 days ago)! We didn't think there was very much to celebrate on Sunday... But now we feel like a PARTY!! So to thank you for all your hard work over the past year, I'm going to send you a couple of presents tomorrow... so keep your eye out for that! 

Thank you for your patience and humility. I wish you a profitable new 3CM year!   Kind Regards,

Dan Weaverdan@the3cashmachine.comwww.the3cashmachine.com

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Thanks Dan – Update from Dan Weaver
Hi thought I’d just let you know, if you haven’t read that Dan Weaver’s 3 Cash Machine is indeed gone for the time being, it sounds to me (reading between the lines as I often do) that some one, or a competitor has “stiched him up” as we say in UK – i.e somebody has dobbed his website into google so they somehow mange to completely block just about anyone from getting into it – I’ve never heard of google doing a denial of service attack before on a website just because it has a scr i pt error!?????????!, as it’s normally something hackers do – so if it isn’t really google but someone blackmailing them – then I guess they succeeeded pretty well as I sure as hell can’t get into my account through firefox or IE, which mean’s the IP or domain must have some kind of ‘hook’ / redirect on it that bypasses the website hosting provider and domain provider etc. – which is crazy – anyway it’s gone for the forseeable future. I just want to thank Dan for having the curtesy to e-mail us members and let us know.  I will be joining up to the next version – as the system was a good one – but if  “unknown forces” decide to screw over your website, there is little a webmaster can do about it, I just want to say that having used the system, I personally found nothing wrong with it, I’ve used alot of systems over the 8 years I’ve been on-line, and this one followed the same steps that many marketing system follow, so why it got singled out for attack by google is beyond me – which is why I can only suspect rivalry of some sort, that we are not privy to. The E-mail: We regret to inform you that a decision has been made to temporarily close the 3CM. As you may or may not know, Google flagged the3cashmachine.com as an 'attack site' on the 29th of June 2009 (two weeks ago). Since this date we have carried out a number of comprehensive reviews on both the website and its database and No malicious coding was found. We then took the steps to upload a fresh version of the site and carried out a number of tests. Once we were satisfied we then submitted the site to Google for a re-review... The Review is Still Pending! We have tried on several occasions to contact Google for support. BUT it's nearly impossible to talk to a 'real person' at Google. They seem very reluctant to publish any type of contact details on their site. We was finally able to find a telephone number on a directory site, but this only took me to an automated telephone service. We've carried out some research on a couple of webmaster forums and the general opinion of Google is... you have to wait... and wait... until that THEY deicide to look at your site again. This could take a week or it could take several months... there's no guarantee with Google. And so we have been left with a dilemma... Should the 3CM stay open? We are still receiving members (as some people are still able to access the site)... But the daily sign ups have dropped by almost 90%. This means that those people that HAVE been able to join and set up their systems (and the people that are still actively promoting the system) will be wasting time, energy and money. With just over 10% of internet users able to access the site, the chances of making your 3CM system work are very small. So we feel morally obliged to tell our members to stop promoting the 3CM. Our hands are tied and our only option is to be patient, while we wait for Google to respond. We suggest that you take the necessary steps needed to ensure that you don't lose any money during the down time. Some of you may have GDI accounts that have less then 10 members, so you may wish to close these accounts. All 'paid' advertising should be canceled immediately. The signup page will be replaced with a temporary information page within the next 24 hours. This will include a form, which will allow visitors to opt in to receive a re-launch notification email. If any of these visitors arrive via your referral link, they will still be logged as one of your referrals. The support desk will also be closed until further notice. We will keep you up to date on any progress via the 3CM newsletter. We will still send out the odd promotional email. This is how we fund the 3CM and your support is greatly appreciated during these times of crisis. May I take this opportunity to offer you my sincerest apologies. I realize that there will be many people that have lost out in one way or another due to this incident. And I can't apologies enough. There are some cruel people in this world, that don't think about the people they harm, when committing internet crime. I truly hope that we are able to re-launch the 3CM very soon. I would like to thank everyone for their continued commitment, hard work and support over the past year. And this will hopefully continue for many years to come. We will be in contact shortly, Yours Sincerely, Dan and the 3CM Team support@the3cashmachine.com www.the3cashmachine.com

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okay so I know it’s not broken but when a big red warning site says “this website has been attacked” shows up not everyone realizes than the site has actually just run into a problem with Google and a script that is falsely flagging the website as a place of doom!

So, I’ll leave it for a bit longer, wait and see what Dan Weaver the owner says (they are in talks with a google person to find the cause of the problem) The main reason I even mention this is because 3 cash machine is one of the programs I recommend – but if the site remains broken on the search engines then I will have to find a program to replace it in my Healthy Coffee downline builder – as a broken website isn’t very reassuring for new recruits!

So if you have joined up or not don’t panic, it’s a website glitch – we will either wait it out or I will dig into my directory of other programs – I’d prefer to keep this one if possible, because I like the system – but – well we’ll see what happens – I’ll keep you updated.