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What does a coffee cherry taste like?

Lots of questions! Starting from the top... Taste? Coffee cherries are mild in flavour and slightly sweet. The flavour is somewhat reminiscent of other red fruits, like a mild mix of fruits like ...
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How long can I store roasted coffee beans?

I assume you are storing them for a later grinding (likely just before preparing your cups of coffee). According to some sources 1,2,3, the main point is use it within a week. For more than that, it ...
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What volume of beans yields a tablespoon of ground coffee?

Here's an opportunity to start refining your brewing process. Coffee brewers, including myself, tend to use weight as our measuring unit as opposed to volume since bean sizes vary significantly ...
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Can caffeine be extracted by the body when digesting coffee grounds?

Yes. Coffee grounds are simply the ground up seeds found inside the berry of the coffea plant, so eat up! Even after the beans have been ground and extracted into your favorite coffee beverage, they ...
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What coffee and roast are best for tiramisu?

From a cooks perspective, I think it should be "espresso", or "caffè" not "coffee" in any good tiramisu recipe, which in turn would already suggest a type of beans and roast. Note that the Italian ...
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Kopi Luwak - real or not?

I actually might say no. This type of coffee is rather expensive at $100 to $600 per US pound. Yes, 100 to 600 USD. This is natural Kopi Luwak coffee at a normal price. The word blend sounds a little ...
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Does the flavour of coffee beans improve after opening the bag?

That is almost the opposite of my experience, after opening a bag of beans, they have noticeable less flavour after a couple of days. Coffee beans are more resistant than ground coffee though, as that ...
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Best way to store unroasted/raw coffee?

I have a few different varieties of green beans that I have stored in freezer style plastic bags for going on 1+ year now and there is no mold present. I keep them stored at room temperate with as ...
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Are there health risks to eating coffee?

No. Not any substantial ones. There are several listed questions around the topic of eating coffee beans. Ingesting roasted coffee beans without grinding/brewing them in some manner is quite common....
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Does sweet coffee exist?

This question is probably best answered in two directions: If you feel the need to add sugar to your coffee, it may simply be that the coffee that you are drinking is not very good. Sugar makes a lot ...
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Decaffeinated Coffee Beans

There's no strain of coffee bean that has no caffeine when it is grown, but you can find whole-bean, decaffeinated coffee. "Decaffeinated" coffee has been treated to have most of the caffeine removed. ...
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Kopi Luwak - real or not?

I'll say yes it's "real" and it's "clever" marketing. If one had a coffee plantation with wild palm civets running about, it would be easy enough to have some folks collect some "civet processed" ...
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Is there any process after roasting coffee?

Typically after roasting coffee there is a rest period during which you don't want to use the coffee. Roughly 85-90% of carbon dioxide contained in a coffee bean after roasting will be released in ...
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How does freezing affect vacuum packed coffee beans?

Freezing will not affect the coffee beans chemically. Thawing may affect them though. When you thaw the beans, small amounts of water (that were frozen as small amounts of air humidity) will melt and ...
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Reduce power of popcorn popper for roasting coffee

Rather than playing with electricity and wiring you could actually just move the roasting bed/area away from your heat source and accomplish close to the same thing. I started roasting with a ...
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Is it possible to regrind beans?

With a blade grinder, yes. They already just chop the pieces smaller and smaller until you stop, anyway. With a burr grinder, it may be. But I make no promises that it won't clog the feeder. It's ...
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How to prepare good coffee during an outdoor trip?

I think an AeroPress would work great on a trip. Just need hot water. AeroPress Video Tutorial How To :: Inverted AeroPress Video Tutorial (YouTube) See also other questions tagged aeropress.
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How to prepare good coffee during an outdoor trip?

I'm going to focus on the "old-school" aspect of your question. From my perspective/experience, the classic way of producing "camp coffee" is a percolator. To use this device, you put grounds in a ...
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What factors determine coffee bean size?

The single biggest factor in the size of a coffee bean is the botanical variety of the plant. There is no amount of nutrition or growing conditions that can overcome the effect of genetics. In this ...
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How to create green coffee?

What I have seen online suggests that it is what one would think of as severely under roasted (by coffee standards) coffee. The flavor profile is very different than traditionally roasted coffee and ...
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Roughly how much caffeine am I ingesting when I eat chocolate coffee beans?

Weight per bean ca 130mg from here One needs approx. 15g coffee per 250ml water, corresponding to 115beans per cup. A 237ml serving of coffee contains 95mg caffeine (USDA), which would be 830ug / bean ...
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How should I start a coffee export business?

As another dimension, I see a few trends that you might wish to consider. Green beans. More people are getting into home roasting, and green (processed but un-roasted) beans are the vehicle. Also, ...
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How can I get a more even grind with a rotary grinder?

"Using more or less beans in a single grinding session" will yield the most bang for buck, usually. However, this is highly dependent on your particular rotary grinder. Rotary grinders are like ...
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What is coffee silver skin?

Silver skin is the name generally used when it is still on the green beans. This thin but tough layer is lightly colored (sometimes similarly to the paper product in your question) and mostly ...
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What factors contribute to differences between coffee beans?

As has been mentioned, the species of coffee makes a difference. There are something like a hundred different species, with Robusta and Arabica being the most common commercially grown by far. ...
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Is there any way to preserve roasted coffee beans?

Coffee beans, once roasted, are perishable; they don't "keep". Within roughly five days of roasting staleness is detectable (taste/quality is adversely affected). There is one way to preserve ...
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Is there any way to preserve roasted coffee beans?

What I usually do is to place the degased beans (30hours after roasting) in a nitrogen atmosphere. I did a couple of experiments to check whether this is working, namely mass-spectrometry on the ...
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How long does it take coffee beans to degas?

Degassing is discussed a few times. The most cited answer in Coffee SE is probably this question. In short: Degassing takes up to 2 to 4 days to achieve drinkable coffee. If you really want to ...
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Aluminium v's Ceramic storage

Typically aluminum packaging is actually a three (or more) layered packaging with aluminum not being in direct contact with the beans. Aluminum is a superb barrier to air, and it is typically used as ...
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