Coffee Signs

A percolatingly perfect gift for all those addicted to the pleasures of the bean, who can't wake up without at least one cup, for the people whom you suspect have a coffee mug permanently attached to their hand.

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Coffee Roasting

Roasting can be done by oven, stove top, gas or wood fired tumbler, hot air popcorn popper, or by hot air coffee roaster. From 10 to 20 percent of the water weight of the green coffee beans comes off during the roasting process. The beans brown as the sugars caramelize with the application of heat. There is a breakdown of the cellular structure of the beans during which oils come out. Pulp chaff in the bean crevice is usually blown off with a fan as the beans roast. Some acids form in the bean and other acids are neutralized. Different times of roasting and different amounts of heat change the bean... Read the rest of the article