Coffee and Milk: The Sources of This Mixture

This is an interesting combination that can change the way you see coffee.

Ideally, brewed coffee is best appreciated on its black presentation. Today, a growing percentage of customers prefer to drink it with milk added. But isn’t it a curious combination? History says that the first reference of coffee and milk mixed is dated back in the late 1600s, with two sources: Europe and Asia.

Back in the 1600s, the Dutch were the first to get their hands on live coffee trees. After gaining some Yemen coffee beans, they were grown in Amsterdam and earned success in 1658. China and the Dutch successfully exchanged goods, and coffee became available. Coffee with milk was born when a Dutch ambassador tried to emulate the combination of milk with tea. After that, it became a common preparation with many variants.

In Europe, the use of milk in the preparation of coffee was different. Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki was a hero during the siege of Vienne, and as a reward, he received bags of beans left by the Turkish and a lot of money. He made a smart decision and opened a café in Vienna. Europeans didn’t like the Turkish method because of grounds settling in the bottom of their coffee.

This was when he decided to filter the coffee to separate grounds from the water and add a sweetener. But in the 17th century, sugar wasn’t yet used, but honey and milk. He added these two, and the results became a standard in coffee.

Heated milk turned out to be a better sweetener and sugar was eventually taken out and not used at all.

Today, there are many ways to drink coffee with milk. Baristas even add art designs to cause impressions beyond the taste of the cup. Do you want to have the best coffee products in your store? That Coffee Roasters have them. They roast the best batches of coffee in the market, with beans from the most wanted sources worldwide. Give them a call! Grab a handful of the greatest beans.

The percentage of milk per coffee cup makes for a variety of coffee preparation when it comes to coffee and milk.

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Coffee Packaging: The Safety of Packed Goods

Coffee bags are not only a way of transporting the beans, but ensurance that their quality remains intact.

There are a lot of things going on behind the trade of coffee products that escape, primarily, the sight of the customer. All procedures coffee follows to reach its final destination are quite rigorous and lengthy, but necessary altogether. While transporting, coffee beans require being protected from anything that might harm or damage their quality. This is why packaging is, in essence, one of the first thing coffee experts worry about.

Coffee packaging is the ultimate protection beans rely on when they’re being transported. Whether destined to industries, stores, shops and residential locations; seeds require being protected with bags that keep them in ideal conditions, no matter the purpose they’re sent for.

That Coffee Roasters know just how important it is to provide safety on their own quality products. For them, it’s not just about sourcing excellent coffee and developing the perfect roast, but offering packages that are 100% protected from anything that could potentially lower the quality of their coffee.

The moment your order arrives, you’ll be able to tell their packaging is a synonym of the coffee they make, which is high profile coffee of excellence. Given that, the only thing you must worry about is choosing the size and amount of coffee you’re willing to buy.

Logically, sizes are a typical feature when ordering, which is when most industries often prefer safer, small bags to verify the product is up to the standards first. For the joy of unsure buyers, That Coffee Roasters will gladly offer samples (2 to 4 oz bags) of roasted ground beans or whole green beans for customers to try. Think of any size for coffee packaging: they have it.

The main detail that sets them apart from other roasters is the size of production: they literally can roast everything from small batches to large quantities. You just have to name it, and it shall be done.

On the other hand, as a customer, you can provide them with your own labels, bags, and boxes if you want to.

Now that you’ve seen everything they have in store for you, it’s your turn to choose them and notice why they’re not the typical roasting company. Feel free to contact them now, and see it yourself.

Whether you're looking for little bags or huge amounts of coffee, there are specialized bags for each one.

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Phone Number: (305) 821-8811

2697 W. 76 Street, Hialeah, Florida 33016

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How Coffee Drinking Became a Culture

Coffee drinking today is almost considered a ritual of relaxation and a moment of inner peace.

With the passage of time, there have been many changes in the way we behave and live. Many things have evolved in these last years, but overall we haven’t changed that much compared to how we were centuries back. In fact, there’s a culture that’s been ongoing for millennia that spins around one little green bean: coffee.

Coffee has persisted in our lives, shaping the very roots of history itself. This beverage of ancient times is a drink associated with social interaction, intelligence, and business even. Curiously, many thinkers and politicians back in the day found the answers to essential questions while having a sip of coffee.

Coffee plants are from way back in time, but the discovery of coffee’s true potential wasn’t until the 1400s when people found out they could roast its seeds. After that, coffee took a huge step and paved its way into history.

It was only one century after that the drink widespread across Arab’s coffeehouses. Europe didn’t take that long to be filled up with this beverage; business turned coffee into a successful one. This is where coffee became more than a drink, but an opportunity for social interaction and brainstorming of ideas.

Coffee, as a mood booster, was the ideal drink for writers and composers to create their works, and most coffeehouses were spectators of the birth of classics we enjoy up to this day.

For Americans, history proves to be somewhat different. Word says that back in 1773, just after the Boston Tea Party, American colonists raided British ships and trashed all crates of tea. This is said to be the moment they universally switched traditions and started drinking coffee.

John Adams, an American patriot and the second President of the United States, has an interesting story to tell us about coffee. Extracted from a letter to Abihail Adams on July of 1774, he wrote the following words “… Accordingly, I have drunk coffee every afternoon since and have borne it very well. Tea must be universally renounced. I must be weaned, and the sooner, the better.”

But it wasn’t all smoothly in the history of coffee; there’s a very dark tone to it that still can be felt today. Europeans took their coffee along with them while they colonized several parts of the world. This means they forced the enslaved to grow coffee on their lands.

Sadly, this meant that the very same coffeehouses that were supposed to elevate thinking and consciousness served the French and American Revolutions to occur. It feels counterproductive that slaves were the ones behind the mass production of coffee their slave owners would be drinking.

But it didn’t last enough, for the relief of many. With the passage of time and modernism, ideas of slavery were looked as orthodox, but coffee continued to be produced worldwide. Today, when drinking a cup of coffee, you might look back and think how long it has been and how much we’ve changed. Coffee hasn’t, yet it stands forth.

Every time you feel immersed in thought, take a long sip of your dark beverage and be grateful for the opportunity. Should you seek for the best beans to produce high profile coffee, then I’d recommend you contact That Coffee Roasters. Their tradition might not be of millennia, but the quality of their beans will definitely take you back.

This beverage has been drunk for centuries, making it a profound beverage with cultural roots.

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That Coffee Roasters

Phone Number: (305) 821-8811

2697 W. 76 Street, Hialeah, Florida 33016

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Roasting Coffee Machines: What’s behind Them?

Coffee roasting machines fall into two basic types: drum or hot-air. Drum consists of horizontal rotating drums that bowl down green coffee beans in a heated environment. 

It’s hard to believe one bean has so much value that it created a whole industry around it. Coffee beans follow complex procedures that end in a cup that customers worldwide enjoy every day. After the beans are carefully extracted and sorted, comes the roasting. This is the part where the roasting machines are in charge, but how? Find out what’s behind them here.

Roasting back in the mid to late 1800s was carried out by an old procedure that required an enclosed skillet. Children usually did the job, and it consisted of holding the skillet over the fire while rotating the beans within.

After the first laws of coffee purity had been implemented, home production evolved into a new factory roasting. The first industrial roasters were just large cylinders that were put to heat. While this allowed more coffee to be roasted, the emptying and cooling were a complication.

It was in 1864 that Jabez Burns invented the self-emptying coffee roaster in New York. This machine had an opening mechanism that emptied the beans without the need to remove the cylinder from the flame and a double screw that allowed an easier distribution of the beans.

Manufacturers began innovating in the early 1880’s by adding hot air to the equation: German manufacturer Van Gulpen introduced a roaster with holed walls that allowed the machine to draw the hot air inside the drum or through the drum from one end to the other. This manufacturer also added a fan that would provide fresh air to the beans in the roasting process. After this, coffee roasters changed from closed cylinders to vented, open air machines.

Carl Salomon of Braunschweig introduced an original principle to the process: hot gas ventilation for a quicker roasting. By determining the number of revolutions required to tumble the beans off the wall into the hot air stream, he managed to get a faster (the roasting time fell to 20 minutes approximately) and more effective roast.

Cylinder roasters today use more advanced variations of this design, so it might be said that Carl Salomon set the basis for one of the most popular ways of roasting. Today, roasters employ one of the two methods: the one that involves using heat under the drum and then sucked through holes; and the second, using hot air blown into the drum.

That Coffee Roasters are professionals in the roasting process, hence their name. They’ve been in this business for long, and their products are examples of excellence. They even use a Jabez Burns & Sons Sample Coffee Roaster (which is in the image below) to ensure the quality of the beans they roast in a larger scale. Discover a coffee profile of high standards, contact them now!

The 1929 R6 Jabez Burns & Sons Roaster is a classic sample roaster machine that's still used today.

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That Coffee Roasters

Phone Number: (305) 821-8811

2697 W. 76 Street, Hialeah, Florida 33016

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Differences between Arabica and Robusta Beans

Arabica and Robusta beans differ in many aspects, not just the looks but taste, chemicals and growing conditions.

Although a large quantity of the coffee produced today comes from many different countries, there’s confusion regarding the type of coffee you’re consuming. For those who are in the business of coffee, knowing this is just a part of every day’s labor. On the contrary, several customers and buyers can’t tell the difference between Arabica and Robusta roasted coffee. To clarify the difference (a huge one) here are some points to help you notice right away.

1.- Coffee beans:

Perhaps this is the easiest one to tell. Arabica coffee beans are more elliptical shaped compared to the round Robusta beans. There are also some differences in the structure of each one, which is the reason both beans roast differently under the same conditions.

2.- Climate and environmental conditions:

Robusta grows between 4.5-6.5 meters and requires warm temperatures between 18°C-36°C whereas Arabica coffee shrub grows in heights between 2.5-4.5 meters, with colder temperatures of 15°C-24°C. Regarding rainfall, Arabica demands an annual rainfall of 1200-2200 mm/yr, which is less than Robusta (2200-3000 mm/yr). Robusta is more affordable in terms of production, producing more coffee per hectare than Arabica.

3.- Chlorogenic acid and Caffeine:

Chlorogenic and caffeine concentrations are believed to drive off insects and animals, and it’s also the reason of the bitter taste in coffee. Robusta happens to contain twice the amount of these two, compared to Arabica. This is what makes Robusta coffee beans to be more resistant in the wild.

To summarize: Robusta beans are economically better for production, but due to its bitter taste, it’s often considered to be of “lesser quality.” But there’s a lot of profit to attain from Robusta, and industries today usually use it as a filler to reduce costs.

We can’t deny the high profile of Arabica beans. They are the most successful product in the coffee business. Good news is there’s a product that is 100% Arabica coffee coming soon: it’s the Only Colombian! That Coffee Roasters is glad to launch it for exclusive customers like yourself; so don’t miss this chance and get in touch with them to get your hands on the finest coffee.

Arabica coffee beans grown in Colombia have the advantage of climate, which translates into its unique taste.

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Phone Number: (305) 821-8811

2697 W. 76 Street, Hialeah, Florida 33016

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