Specialty Gourmet Coffee

Specialty gourmet coffee is a very hothelp set quality standards for the specialty coffee
commodity in today's market. The consumptiontrade.
of gourmet coffee has steadily grown withSince the 1990's the growing popularity of the
consumers enjoying the more sophisticatedcoffee houses and specialty gourmet coffee
tastes of gourmet coffee beans.retailers, have made gourmet coffee one of the
Specialty gourmet coffee, sometimes calledfastest growing food services markets in the
premium coffee, is exceptional coffee beansworld. In the United States alone, it nets
grown only in ideal coffee-producing climates.approximately $8.5 billion a year.
These coffee beans have unique characteristicsSome have compared specialty gourmet coffee
because of the soil they grow in which produceto wine. The aromas and flavors have similarities
very distinctive flavors.in how the consumer connects with the two
Gourmet coffee has a more balanced flavor andbeverages. The characteristics of gourmet coffee
richer taste than the standard mass-producedhowever, are more even complex than wine. The
coffee. Gourmet coffee beans go through acoffee bean is more dependent on altitudes,
rigorous process of certification that is stricter toclimate and soil variation than with the grapes
help keep the quality high.used for wine.
In the 1974 issue of the "Tea & CoffeeThe history and tradition of the specialty coffee
Trade Journal", Erna Knutsen first used the termgrower makes this a very complex beverage. So
'specialty coffee' to describe these unique coffeepour yourself a cup of your favorite specialty
beans that are produced in special microclimatesgourmet coffee, sit back and enjoy, you deserve
with these distinctive, exceptional flavors.it.
In 1982 the Specialty Coffee Association ofCopyright © 2005 All Rights Reserved.
America was created by coffee professionals to