The main institution to refer to when talking about specialty coffee is the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA), which defines international standards for coffee evaluation according to a codified tasting card that establishes at the end of the analysis a score to the coffee submitted for evaluation: from 90-100 points outstanding; from 85-89.99 points excellent; from […]
Spazio Caffè Florence: Quality Coffee by Emma Camerino Francesco Giovanchelli tells the story of Spazio Caffè Firenze and how Quality is at the heart of their business, both with respect to the product and the entire supply chain.
The Battle of Vienna took place on September 11 and 12, 1683, and ended a two-month siege placed by the Turkish army on the city of Vienna. This pitched battle was fought by the Polish-Austrian-German army against the army of the Ottoman Empire. On the battlefield the Ottoman Turks left behind after their retreat, in […]
Coffee arrives in Martinique, an ‘island in the Antilles (French colony). The Dutch made a gift to the French government of a beautiful coffee plant. The story goes that it was Captain Gabriel De Clieu who transported the precious seedling from France to Martinique by the innovative vessels of the French fleet, crossing the impassable […]
Legend has it that Kaldi was a shepherd, living in the Kaffa region of southern Ethiopia. Kaldi would take his father’s goats and lead them to pasture. Once in the pasture he observed that the goats eating some red berries from the bushes near the meadows seemed as if invigorated by a new energy.
Let’s make a necessary premise: let’s distinguish origin coffees with traceable coffees. Origin coffees are coffees whose origins we know but which are often the result of cooperative processing by small farmers. Let’s take an example of a label that says: coffee from Brazil, what does it mean? Per fare un paragone con il mondo […]
For years we have been hearing about eco-sustainable projects rather than fairtrade projects whose purposes we do not know. Let’s try to evolve the discussion in another aspect. Environmentally sustainable products are not always better in quality so let’s reverse our point of view: is it possible that the push due to new generations of […]
Roasting is the fundamental chemical-physical transformation process of green coffee into roasted, i.e., cooked, coffee that allows us to enjoy our much-loved beverage. It is at this stage that, thanks to the transfer of heat in special machines, we cook our green beans, creating the volatile aromas that we will find in the final cup. […]
