The World Atlas of Coffee: From beans to brewing - coffees explored, explained and enjoyed

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So I started reading this amazing book and dived into the great world of brown gold. Nothing in this world is for certain. There is a huge amount of experience, instinct and knowledge necessary to be successful in this business and that most of the time quantity comes before quality and that not every coffee bean is destined to give you a good or even better great tasting cup of coffee.

The World Atlas of Coffee: From beans to brewing - coffees The World Atlas of Coffee: From beans to brewing - coffees

Professionals and enthusiasts alike will love this beautiful book by James Hoffmann. From overviews of the world's most vibrant coffee-growing regions, to step-by-step brewing tutorials, the content is educational, thought-provoking, and substantial. I've already recommended this book to Barista Magazine readers countless times.-- (07/01/2015) I did appreciate the country breakdown of coffee as well as the origin of coffee and how it has progressed over the years. I also found that the objectivity of Hoffmann's approach made the latter sections of the book a bit repetitive. While it's wonderful that coffee from Colombia can be fruity, floral, or have a heavier body, to cover all his bases, Hoffman employs a certain vagueness in outlining the flavors of coffee varietals which I found to be annoyingly similar across a number of disparate countries. Let me be clear: as a detail-oriented coffee aficionado myself, I love the detail that Hoffmann put into his work; I just wish he'd balanced the book out more, spending equal time talking about things like the history of coffee consumption, anything having to do with decaf, specifics of flavor differences found in high quality cups, hand grinders vs electric, or even an explanation as to why he hates percolators with such passion. Aside from that last one and decaf, these topics are all described, just not with the detail he gave regarding coffee producing countries. Then again, it is The World ATLAS of Coffee, so maybe I was expecting the wrong thing. Part 2 was okay; however, a lot of its contents are on his YouTube channel. Not much of this part was new to me, and, in some instances (like some of the brew methods), it was actually outdated! With his expert guidance we travel around the globe, from Burundi to Honduras via Vietnam, sipping and spitting as we go. This is high geekery made palatable by the evident love pulsing through every sentence.' - The Guardian

Where coffee comes from, how it was harvested, the roasting process and the water used to make the brew are just a few of the factors that influence the taste of what we drink. World champion barista, and coffee roaster, James Hoffmann examines these key factors, looking at varieties of coffee, the influence of terroir, how it is harvested and processed, the roasting methods used, through to the way in which the beans are brewed. The World Atlas of Coffee gives you a deep look behind the counter of your next coffee shop and inside the cup of coffee you´re about to drink. You´ll get to know that planting and growing of the coffee plants isn´t the only thing that’s necessary to get to what counts the most for a cup of coffee: the coffee bean. No matter if you´re a coffee junkie, or if you´re one of the many people who simply like to enjoy a decent cup of coffee after work. I can look up the type of coffee and region they came from in this book, and it helps me decide if that coffee I am looking at is one I would really like, before buying.

The world atlas of coffee : from beans to brewing--coffees The world atlas of coffee : from beans to brewing--coffees

This book contains everything you ever wanted to know about coffee. It talks about everything from the plants to processing techniques, how to brew it and where coffee is grown with what characteristics. Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, equivalent to 146 billion cups of coffee per year, making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. The World Atlas of Coffee is an excellent choice for these coffee lovers. PDF / EPUB File Name: The_World_Atlas_of_Coffee__From_beans_to_b_-_James_Hoffmann.pdf, The_World_Atlas_of_Coffee__From_beans_to_b_-_James_Hoffmann.epubHalf of the book is dedicated to the coffee-related history, processes and preparation methods while another half focuses on particular countries growing coffee. The World Atlas of Coffee is, pun intended, a bit of a coffee table book. That said, it's a GREAT coffee table book. Highly recommended for those, who consider coffee to be way more than the following quote from the book (it is lovely to notice the author's aversion to commodity coffees): Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2022-04-27 16:08:16 Autocrop_version 0.0.12_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA40454216 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier