Get the best flavor out of your coffee beans by properly storing them. Green Coffee Beans Are Best for Storage Green coffee beans, or the coffee beans that have not been roasted yet, are the best type of coffee bean for storage.  Green coffee beans can stay good for quite a long time, even years, [...]

You may know about which coffee beans taste best and maybe even about roasting and grinding beans, but here are ten coffee beans facts, some of which you may have never heard before! Making the Grade – Coffee beans are graded in various ways.  Columbian beans are graded from highest to lowest as: ”Supremo” “Excelso”, “Extra” [...]

One of the most exotic coffee beans available on the market today is Ethiopian Yirgacheffe. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee.  Blue Mountain coffee beans are grown in the Blue Mountains of Jamaica which reach heights of 7,500 feet, and the coffee is loved for its lack of bitterness and mild flavor.  This high quality coffee beans [...]

Is the coffee bean a fruit or a legume? Answer: it is a pit inside the coffee fruit. The coffee bean is not technically a legume, because a legume is a plant in the family Fabaceae (or Leguminosae), or a fruit of these plants, and the coffee plant is not a member of the Fabaceae family. [...]

Green coffee beans are simply unroasted coffee beans. Naturally, the quality of green coffee beans determines the flavor, aroma and body of the resulting roasted coffee it can yield. Hence, it is important to know the possible defects that green coffee beans can have, so that you can watch out for them. The following are [...]