Coffee: Premium Coffee
June 23, 2008 – 12:52 pmPremium coffee compliments and extracts flavors rather than masking them behind a bitter-burnt wall. Some lower grade coffees mask good taste by simply over roasting or adding powerful flavoring to their beans. These practices leave the coffee overpowering and limit its ability to be used in conjunction with other tastes.Makers of premium coffee pay close attention to the roasting process. When you receive a premium blend, you notice that the beans entice you, not repel you. Carefully monitoring first and second crack levels, gourmet coffee roasters know exactly what time to remove a coffee bean from the drum so that it took in the particular roast and/or flavor but was not over dried. Semi-moist coffee allows water to remove more from each bean making a fuller cup of coffee.Reason for Premium CoffeeGourmet chefs used coffee for the better part of a century as a closer ...