Archive for October 25th, 2009
Flavored coffee has been around for hundreds of years. It probably started with the addition of spices to coffee to make it more palatable.
Today there is an abundance of natural and artificial flavoring oils to produce a panoply of flavored coffees never imagined before.
But not everyone wants someone else deciding what flavor combinations go into their gourmet coffee or want their gourmet coffee flavored every time. For those who want to control the flavor experience the alternative is flavored coffee syrups.
Coffee syrups give the individual coffee drinker control over the flavor of each cup. You need more Amaretto flavoring this morning, go ahead, it’s your choice. (Flavored Coffees are designed to give a consistent experience from cup to cup.)
For the flavored coffee drinker it’s a world of choices – flavored during the roasting process or flavored to your taste for each cup. Either way you get a great cup of gourmet coffee. Enjoy!
One of the popular niches in the gourmet coffee world is flavored coffee. Coffee is a bitter drink and a small population of hardy few drink it “black.” For some it’s added creamer or sugar, for others it’s flavoring, that takes the edge off and adds to the gourmet coffee experience.
Coffee flavoring is done right after the roasting process when the coffee beans are most porous. Flavor oils are added to the coffee prior to grinding so they can saturate the bean and provide an even flavor experience over all the beans.
Once ground and brewed the flavoring is then spread evenly from cup to cup providing a consistent drinking experience.
While natural flavor oils are available most flavored coffees use artificial flavoring oils as they usually provide a better saturation of the roasted coffee.
Just like coffee blending, this is another way that roast masters practice the art of bringing you great gourmet coffee. The palate of available flavors allow for taste combinations that the coffee alone may not offer.
The purists may never go there, but you can enjoy a world of amazing gourmet flavored coffees.
Drink up and good health.