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Specialty gourmet coffee is a very hot commodity in today's market. The consumption of gourmet coffee has steadily grown with consumers enjoying the more sophisticated tastes of gourmet coffee beans.
Specialty gourmet coffee, sometimes called premium coffee, is exceptional coffee beans grown only in ideal coffee-producing climates. These coffee
beans have unique characteristics
because of the soil they grow in which
produce very distinctive flavors.
Gourmet coffee has a more balanced flavor
and richer taste than the standard mass-
produced coffee. Gourmet coffee
beans go through a rigor
-ous process of certi-
fication that is stricter
to help keep the quality high.
Some have compared specialty gourmet coffee to
wine. The aromas and flavors have similarities in
how the consumer connects with the two beverages.
The characteristics of gourmet coffee however, are
more even complex than wine. The coffee bean
is more dependent on altitudes, climate and soil
variation than with the grapes used for wine.
The history and tradition of the specialty coffee
grower makes this a very complex beverage. So
pour yourself a cup of your favorite specialty
gourmet coffee, sit back and enjoy, you deserve it.
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In the 1974 issue of the "Tea & Coffee Trade Journal", Erna Knutsen first used the term 'specialty coffee' to describe these unique coffee beans that are produced in special microclimates with these distinctive, exceptional flavors.
In 1982 the Specialty
Coffee Association of
America was created by
coffee professionals to
help set quality standards for the specialty coffee trade.
Since the 1990's the growing popularity of the coffee houses and specialty gourmet coffee retailers, have made gourmet coffee one of the fastest growing food services markets in the world. In the United States alone, it nets approximately $8.5 billion a year.
The Programmable Krups 1100-watt coffee maker provides fast efficient brewing with a flavor control aroma switch that maximizes flavor extraction. It offers a full standard 12-cup capacity, 60-oz. water reservoir with a DuoFilter water filtration system that removes chlorine for better taste and reduces mineral deposits for longer machine life. The cascading brew head delivers a shower of hot water to ensure even flavor extraction and
the pause and serve feature allows interruption any time during the brew cycle. The programmable features include a programmable clock to set the daily start time, a programmable auto-off from 1-5 hours, an empty water reservoir detection shuts unit off automatically if empty, a highly visible blue illuminated LED control panel, an audible signal when brewing is complete and a descaling indicator measures brew time and calculates when descaling is necessary.
Krups Black Programmable Coffee Maker:
Gary Gresham
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