About Coffee

All you wanted to know about the bean! Please click oon the various sub-sections to know more.

Bean Back is about how coffee was started – it’s origins and the mystery surrounding its popularity and entry into Europe. Naturally, as you may know, coffee is grown in many places around the World, so Bean around the World is a snap shot at popular places around the globe where coffee is grown and how coffee from one part of the World taste different from a other part, showing different types of character, smell and flavours. From Bean to Cup takes you on the journey from how a coffee cherry travels to becoming a roasted bean, ready for consumption. This leads to how to take care of your coffee bean “Romancing the Bean” – looking after your coffee beans so that you can get the best out of it, what to do and what not to do.

Now you know where your bean comes from and how to look after it, how do you want to drink it, but first, you’ve got to know what types of coffee there are. So under Coffee Lingo – you can now impress your friends, colleagues with flashy names like frappuccino, latte macchiato, espresso con panna, etc so that the next time you visit a café, you know what all those confusing names are.

Then of course, if you want to drink the stuff at home, you’ve got to know how to prepare it – what kind of tools you need and how much it is going to cost you under Equipment and Tools, you’ll get your feel.

Just to round up, after learning about its origins, it’s good to know more about the bean – be prepared to defend the bean by learning about misconceptions and showering those doubters with facts galore under Coffee Facts.