The Drinking
Now for the pièce de résistance, your cup o’ joe. What do you do with it, besides drinking it that is? Do you go all commando and drink it black like the purist you are? Do you dress it up with milk and sugar? Do you add spices to it or flavored creamers? Does chocolate or caramel or vanilla enter your cup of coffee?

The Brewing

WOW, so many ways to brew coffee. The brewing is what gets the roasted beans into liquid form suitable for filling a cup and imparting that first sip of liquid goodness. Brewing takes equipment and so many kinds. It is truly mind boggling to think of all the types of equipment, so we won’t, at least not here.

Brewing methods range from the primitive, dumping rough ground beans into a pot of water and waiting until it boils over, adding eggshells to settle the grounds (cowboy coffee) to high tech coffee machines with coffee pods, no muss no fuss.

The Roast

The beans upon harvest are green and have little or no taste. Opening up the flavor of the bean requires roasting and there are several methods. The process of the roast, meaning the temperature of the roast and the length of time of the roast all contribute to the taste and aroma of the finished bean. Each type of roast has a particular temperature and time frame. From Light to Dark Roast the temperatures get progressively higher. Roasting coffee at home is a hobby for some coffee enthusiasts; experimenting with the flavor of the beans and getting the freshest possible roast.