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Are You A Gourmet Coffee Drinker?
By Sharon Price
Do you love your coffee? Can you go a day without a cup of your favorite drink? Coffee as we know
it today is much different than when it was first discovered. These days there are so many varieties of
gourmet coffee that it is difficult to choose a favorite one.
What Exactly Is Gourmet Coffee?
A cup of gourmet coffee is a relatively new idea. Gourmet coffee is usually only made from Arabica
beans, which are usually the coffee beans with the fullest flavors. The general average jar of coffee
which you buy in supermarkets is made using a mixture of beans using low grade Brazilian coffee
beans and Robusta beans. They also add a small amount of the Arabica coffee beans to ensure a
nicer flavor than using just the low grade beans. Also the lower grade beans contain more caffeine
than the others.
Usually, gourmet coffee is roasted at the plant and makes it into the consumer's hands within a week.
You can buy pre-ground gourmet coffee, but the preferred way to buy it is while it is still in its bean
form. The beans can usually be ground at the store you buy them from.
Commercial coffee is also usually not as fresh. Commercial coffee is pre-ground before it is packaged.
After packaging it can take several weeks to actually make it to a grocery store. Usually, the longer
pre-ground commercial coffee sits on a shelf waiting to be purchased, the staler and bitter it will
become. Generally, the biggest advantage of commercial coffee is that it is cheap compared to some
types of gourmet coffee.
The two most important things to remember when looking for gourm