Coffee Beans

21 guides

Learn about coffee beans and intelligently choose the best beans to suit your taste buds.

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What is Cascara and How to Brew it at Home

Quick answer: Cascara is the dried skin and fruit of the coffee cherry, the part normally discarded to get the coffee bean. It is brewed like loose-leaf tea and tastes sweet, fruity and floral, more like a herbal tea than…

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Complete Peruvian Coffee Guide

Quick answer: Peruvian coffee is arabica grown mostly by small farmers on the slopes of the Andes. It is typically mild, with…

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Can Coffee Go Bad?

Quick answer: Coffee rarely goes bad in the unsafe sense. Kept dry, beans and grounds don’t spoil, but they go stale and…

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What Kind of Coffee Beans Does Starbucks Use?

Quick answer: Starbucks uses 100% arabica coffee beans, bought from farms across the coffee-growing world and mostly sourced through its C.A.F.E. Practices…

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How to Roast Coffee Beans at Home

Quick answer: To roast coffee beans at home, buy green coffee, heat it in a small hand roaster or heavy skillet while…