Tag Archives: coffee-chemistry

Torrefacto Roasted Coffee

Had a weird one today – a bag of coffee roasted in Spain that at first glance looked a very odd mixture of roasts:

It wasn’t until I broke one of the shiny ones open that I worked out what was going on.  Inside the dark, sticky beans the colour wasn’t nearly as dark and in [...]

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Sugar (Part 1): Sucrose

I know this blog is predominantly about coffee but sometimes I find the things that surround us worth a look too. Though we may not approve of customers shovelling spoonfuls of sugar into their drinks, and we certainly don’t approve of espresso that requires a spoonful to go from being mouth-achingly sour to merely [...]

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