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By Eileen Church, Fri Dec 9th
Plain coffee is fast becoming a thing of the past. It's nowquite simple to whip up a gourmet hot beverage for guest,family, or just for yourself. Nowadays there are a number ofcoffee clubs and circles in which coffee drinking has becomesomewhat of a social club. These social clubs meet in thecommunity or on the Internet. Where did the good old days go where you could get just aregular,
good cup of coffee all across America. It's all because there is a big craze over coffee these days.People are almost worshipping the coffee bean now. People get athrill out of ordering and buying special coffees from specialtystores. They really like grinding their own coffee beans. Theylike visiting places such as and bringing back theirspecial blends. And "coffee tasting" seems to be about aspopular as "wine tasting". (Article continued below)
They even have furniture and home interior designs with a coffeetheme. This would make great gifts for the coffee buff. Coffee got its beginnings around 900 A.D. where it was at firstused as a stimulant. It was also at times used as a wine and amedicine. It doesn't look like anything is much different today. There are not many products such as coffee that have continued"as is" for hundreds of years. And yet people are stillscrutinizing and getting creative with it today and probablywill be for years to come. What is also interesting is that coffee is second to oil indollar volume as a world commodity. Did you know that there is two times more caffeine in a pound oftea than in the same amount of roasted coffee? This may be goodnews for those of you who hate the taste of decaffeinated coffeehowever wait just one moment. A pound of tea will make about 160cups whereas a pound of coffee will usually make about 40 cups.This means that a cup of tea has about 1/4th the caffeine of acup of coffee. The content of caffeine in coffee decreases as it is grown athigher altitudes. If you want less caffeine in your coffee, growit higher. Gourmet coffees are typically grown at higheraltitudes so they have less caffeine than their grocery storecounterparts. There are many different types of coffee beans and way too manyto describe in this article. Here are just a few of them: You have Latte, Espresso, Low-Fat, Organic, Cal, Decaf,Half-Decaf, Black Forest, Cappuccino, Cafe au Lait, Alpine whichhas brown sugar, Arabian (lightly spiced and without filter),Cafe con Miel (Spanish for coffee with honey), and Cafe de Olla(a sweet coffee made with chocolate). And you really should attend a coffee tasting at least once. Youwill get to experience how making and brewing gourmet coffee isslowly becoming a form of art. What is fun about the coffeetasting is that you could get a chance to taste two dozen ormore different blends. You may even leave to start your journeyas a coffee connoisseur. Any way you look at it, the tastingexperience will be fun if you like coffee. About the author:Eileen Church, webmistress for http://www.fmcoffee.com , lovesto experiment with coffee of all kinds. Be sure to visithttp://www.fmcoffee.com often for great coffee resources. | 