Natural Decaf – Sparkling Water
We recently undertook a new endeavor to decaffeinate some of our blends.. WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? Right? Well we did it so we can learn the process and make more coffee's available. The biggest issue we came across while figuring out the "science" behind this, is that most coffee companies use chemicals to extract the caffeine from the beans prior to roasting. These chemicals being Methylene chloride or ethyl acetate. Both
Post-Roast Icky
All Coffee roasters will go to extreme processes to make their beans look as appeasing as possible. This results in a huge loss of perfectly good beans. The best time to sort your beans is prior to roasting so as to limit the amount of defects as possible. A good way to look at this would be to examine popcorn kernels. Prior to popping you can find many defects and even some