Excellent coffee is made up of three essential components:
- 25 per cent Equipment
- 25 per cent Beans
- 50 per cent - the person (barista) making it!
- Café Art - this is the “theatre” attached to coffee making performed by the barista.
- Café society is extending into the office and home and increasingly sophisticated ways of serving coffee are taking place in cafes around the world.
- At the office, tins of instant coffee are being replaced by small individual plungers which sit on the desktop.
- In the home, roasting and grinding coffee beans of choice is beginning to take off.
- From green bean to cup: in cafes, fresh beans are now being roasted in boutique roasting machines alongside the espresso machine. Many cafes have begun installing Green Bean Coffee Roasters to ensure they are serving the freshest coffee on the market.
- Around the world with coffee: many cafes now offer several different grinds and blends along with daily specials (eg. Kenyan, Sumatran, Guatemalan, Ethiopian, Costa Rican).