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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?
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 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.
So many exciting and crazy things are happening here at Fat Jack’s. When Fat Jack’s launched, we were amazed at the interest and excitement showed. It's incredible how we’ve grown, expanded and diversified. In the works is a contract with a new coffee roaster, fingers crossed, we're excited about this roaster! We're a firm believer of supporting women-owned businesses and cooperatives in countries throughout the world.
We have been amazed at the talent that is out there in the world, often just down the street. We love being a marketplace for diverse artists, as well as introducing you to good reads, imaginative art, one of a kind jewelry, greeting cards, and vintage treasures. It's a pleasure to offer you the handcrafted products of so many creatives.
The core component of any coffee is the coffee bean. DUH! But there are many varieties, grown at different elevations, in different soils and with the addition of cultivated or hybrid methods diversity seems unending. So, what is up with that?
Coffee cherries grow on trees and look like cherries. When they are bright red, sometimes purple depending on the type of coffee tree, they are ripe for the pickin’. The picking can be done with machines at lower elevations going down the rows of coffee trees shaking the coffee cherries loose. At higher elevations with steep slopes the picking is done by hand.