#How long do French beans take to grow in Kenya?

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Cost Analysis On French Beans Farming In Kenya

French beans (fine and extra-fine) are one of the major vegetable export crops for East Africa, which has propelled Kenya to the pinnacle of greatness as a horticulture nation. East African Growers is listed among the largest growers and exporters of these beans, exporting up to 75tonnes on a weekly basis. French Beans Farming In Kenya French beans are among the major horticultural crops…

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☕️ Specialty Coffee 101 ☕️

Ever walk into a cool hipstery cafe and not understand their menu? Here's some tips: Evolution of the Coffee Industry As science develops, quality control has increased down the line from growing to processing to roasting to brewing. New tools have been introduced over the years that allows us to optimize the flavors of each seed! Third-Wave Coffee vs. First and Second Wave First Wave coffee is what brought coffee into peoples' homes. It was mass produced, pre-roasted, pre-ground, and ready to consume. Second Wave coffee introduced different roast styles. It also introduced different preparations such as the french press, espresso, etc. This wave produced many of the big coffee chains we know today like Starbucks. For these mass produced coffees, the only way to get a uniform flavor from the bulk of beans is to roast them dark, eliminating the nuances of flavor and leaving a burnt, bitter taste. Third Wave coffee focuses on the coffee "from crop to cup" and relies on knowledge of the farming and growing conditions to extract the best flavors from each seed. (By the way: coffee is a seed, not a bean.) Origin stories became an important part of the way we buy and consume coffee, as coffee has more than twice the number of tasting notes as there are in wine and dozens of ways to brew. Because of this extra attention to the flavors of each coffee, it is sort of offensive to dump cream and sugar into your coffee without at least tasting it first. A Standard Menu A standard cafe menu will be broken down into batch brewed coffee (made with a drip maker, usually with size options although many shops have a "regular" or "large" with no medium as standard sizes are 12 oz for a regular drink), and an espresso + milk menu. Some shops will offer a manual brew, slow bar or pourover menu. THIS IS TIME CONSUMING AND SHOULD NOT BE ORDERED WHEN A SHOP IS BUSY AND LOW STAFFED as they take 5 minutes to prepare and need to be watched the entire time. The Espresso + Milk menu is what most people think of when they think of a cafe drink. Here's a quick breakdown of common beverages and what they consist of: Espresso: a double-shot of espresso (35-40 g.) Americano: a double-shot of espresso with hot water. (10-12 oz.) Macchiato: a double-shot of espresso with a dab of milk foam on top. (3 oz.) Note: The Starbucks version of this drink is NOT what you will find on a traditional cafe menu and is more similar to an iced latte. Cortado: a double-shot of espresso with an equal ratio of micro-foamed steamed milk. (5-7 oz.) Cappuccino: a double-shot of espresso with micro-foamed steamed milk. (8-10 oz.) Note: Dry, airy foam is a second-wave concept stemming from Italian espresso preparation and is no longer an industry standard, as micro-foam provides a better drink experience. Please do not demand a dry cappuccino from a specialty cafe. Cafe Latte: a double-shot of espresso with a lot of micro-foamed steamed milk. (12 oz.) Note: If a cafe offers a large sized latte, they may automatically prepare it with 4 shots of espresso. This is because... it tastes better. Otherwise you're getting a ton of hot milk with a very small amount of coffee. Mocha: a double-shot of espresso with chocolate and micro-foamed steamed milk. (12 oz.) Note: If you order a hot chocolate with a shot of espresso added, this is likely what you mean. Tea/Chai Latte: tea concentrate with micro-foamed steamed milk. Note: "Chai" translates to tea and does not always refer to a latte, which suggests steamed milk. Please clarify your order or you might just get a cup of spiced tea! Like the texture and natural sweetness of steamed milk but don't want the concentration of espresso? Order a Cafe Au Lait (French for "coffee with milk") and get regular coffee with steamed milk. This is a great option for people who like a lot of milk in their coffee! Choosing Coffee Beans The things I recommend people new to coffee look for when choosing their beans are the roast and the process. Once you have a better understanding of how roast and processing affect coffee, you can start to narrow it down to variables like elevation levels and country of origin. I personally tend to enjoy a lot of natural processed, light to medium roasted African coffees, with my favorite coffees stemming from Ethiopia and Kenya. Light Roasts are typically very high-quality coffees. The better the quality of the coffee, the less roasters are inclined to burn the natural flavors away through the roasting process. Little time is spend on development. Light roasts will have a lighter body to them. Medium Roasts are likely ideal for a casual coffee drinker. A bit more time is spent in the “development” part of the roasting process to help coax out some flavors that might not be highlighted in a light roast for certain coffees. Dark Roasts are the enemy of specialty coffee. A dark roast is a burnt coffee. In previous waves of coffee, roasts like “French” or “Italian” were introduced, with Italian being the darkest that a coffee can be roasted before it essentially crumbles to ash. When you dark roast a coffee, you lose a great deal of mass and this has led some people in the coffee community to believe there’s a significant loss in caffeine content when a coffee is roasted dark. In truth, caffeine levels remain fairly stable during the roasting process, but don’t believe that a fuller-bodied, bitter cup of coffee is more caffeinated just because the flavor is stronger! These coffees tend to be familiar to folks who have been coffee drinkers for a long time, and are popular with people who believe coffee needs a ton of milk to taste good. Natural (Dry) Process means the coffee bean (which is the seed or pit of a fruit) is sun-dried with the cherry still on the bean while it dries out. This causes the coffee to absorb a lot of those naturally nuanced fruity flavors, which translate into interesting complex flavors in the cup. They tend to be heavier bodied with strong flavor. Washed (Wet) Process is exactly what it sounds like: the fruit is washed off of the bean before it's dried. These coffees tend to have more clarity, they showcase more of the natural flavors in the seed itself and tend to have more floral notes and pronounced acidity. In the cup, they tend to have a lighter tea-like body. Honey (Dry Pulped) Process is a newer style of processing where the fruit is taken off of the seed but not washed before drying. This leaves some of the natural fruit flavors with the coffee, but not as much as a fully dried process. This translates to natural sweetness and a creamier body than a natural process and less acidity than a washed process when brewed. When in doubt, talk to your barista! Baristas are trained, typically by the roasters their cafe partners with if they don't roast their own beans, so they should be knowledgable about their products! We love helping people find the right coffee for them -- for me, it's the second-best part of my job (next to actually preparing a drink!) The barista industry was created by Espresso machine manufacturers who needed trained professionals to know how to operate their equipment and their job is truly to be the step between the roasters and the consusmers. We are here to educate! When the consumer culture around coffee grows, it helps our entire industry to improve. * I'm planning on making my next post about sourcing and why "Certified Fair Trade" and small-batch roasteries are not always indicators that a company's coffee is sourced ethically or sustainably!

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We Love Coffee Blends—Here’s 14 To Try Right Now

Here’s a not-so-secret secret that’s worth sharing loud and proud: we love coffee blends. Let’s say it again with feeling, this time in bold: we love coffee blends! The time-honored tradition of artisan roasters selecting the finest coffee beans from around the world, then combining them together just so to create glorious flavor experiences. What’s not to love?

Single origins are great too, this isn’t an either/or binary kind of thing. But the single-origin has been given a lot of attention over the last few years, perhaps at the expense of the blend. We feel a healthy, well-rounded coffee habit makes room for both, especially when the roast in question is being managed by a high-caliber roasting company the likes of which we’re featuring here.

Today’s selection of blend makers has been pulled from our beloved partners in advertising—the coffee companies that support our daily work here at Sprudge, and who also happen to be some of the very best roasters in the world. For a complete list of advertisers check our right-hand side on this and every article. And to discover even more roasters near you, visit our #StillRoasting project and Sprudge Maps!

Amavida Coffee — Florida Sunrise Blend

Here in Portland, Oregon we long for a long weekend driving along Florida’s coast—stopping off at various cafes and curiosity shops along the way. In the meantime, we can brew a cup of Amavida Coffee’s Florida Sunrise Blend, take a sip, kick back with a reader and daydream about Florida’s Scenic Highway 30A.

Camber Coffee — Moonrise Blend

A luscious, delicious blend of naturally processed Colombian coffee and washed Honduras Santa Barbara. Camber notes they “particularly love this blend for espresso” but you’ll be just as happy brewing it up at home in your favorite brewer.

Counter Culture Coffee — Apollo

A longtime favorite at Sprudge, Apollo is an evolving blend of Ethiopian coffees, currently comprised of Worqa Chalbesa and Rafisa. If you love Ethiopian coffees, this is a particularly gorgeous expression of coffee’s birthplace.

Dogwood Coffee — Mixtape

One of our favorite names for a coffee blend, Mixtape is Dogwood’s ever-changing coffee combo “like one of the mixtapes you made for the person you really like-liked, but didn’t know very well.” Presently it’s a Brazil + Colombia combo, expertly roasted in Minneapolis by the team at Dogwood.

Elixr Coffee — Lunar Lander

Pardon us for saying so, but we think Elixr’s Lunar Lander blend is—wait for it—out of this world. Here you’ll find coffees from Peru, Colombia and Ethiopia, combined for a “light and fruity” blend that tastes great with milk, or as espresso.

Equator Coffees — Wolf It Down

Here’s a good blend for a good cause, created in collaboration with Chef Tyler Florence. $3 from every purchase of Wolf It Down—featuring coffees from Sumatra, Kenya and Colombia—goes to benefit Restaurants Care, an organization supporting restaurant employees impacted by the pandemic.

Go Get Em Tiger — Minor Monuments

If you love a little milk in your coffee (and who can blame ya) GGET’s hero espresso blend, Minor Monuments, is the coffee you seek. You’ll get all kinds of sweet delicious caramel and chocolate flavors, all the more lovely when combined with steamed milk of your choosing. Now that’s good drinking.

Intelligentsia Coffee — Great Lakes Blend

Permit the team at Intelligentsia a bit of double entendre: Great Lakes blend nods to Intelli’s Chicago heritage, but the lakes in question are in fact Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, and the rest of the African Great Lakes found throughout the Great Rift Valley. This coffee, sourced by famed Intelligentsia green buyer Geoff Watts, is comprised of coffees from Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi, offering a composed portrait of one of coffee’s most storied growing regions.

Joe Coffee Company — The Pause

Here’s another wonderful blend project that helps raise money for a good cause. $1 from every 12oz bag and $5 from every 5-pound bag will be donated to No Kid Hungry, a non-profit focused on youth food security around the country. Presently The Pause features a coffee from Ethiopia, but watch for changes to the blend in the weeks to come.

Olympia Coffee Roasting Company—Little Buddy

Little Buddy is the house blend for Olympia Coffee’s second flagship roastery and cafe, located in Tacoma, Washington, a city very near and dear to our hearts here at Sprudge. (Our founders grew up there!) With flavors of sweet berry, stone fruit, and chocolate this works perfectly at home as an espresso, and we especially like it as an Aeropress or French press.

Partners Coffee — Jumpstart

This is a nice blend of Latin American coffees from the folks at Partners Coffee of New York City, with notes of caramel, poached pear, and “Jordan Almond” which—can we talk about how great that sounds as a tasting note? The Jordan almond, a combination of bitter and sweet meant to evoke the beauty of human life and often used as a wedding treat. I want to drink that.

Pilot Coffee — Anthem

What does it mean to have an anthem? Not a national anthem, mind you, but a personal anthem. What would yours be if you had to pick? For Pilot Coffee of Toronto, Anthem is a blend of lively, interesting, “adventurous” (their words) coffees from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya, built to express juicy notes of cranberry and apricot. While definitely roasted with filter coffee in mind, I’d love to try this as one of these high volume espresso “coffee shots” that were briefly all the rage a few years ago.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters — Holler Mountain Blend

Here is a brief, true story about Stumptown’s Holler Mountain Blend. Earlier this month someone broke into my mom’s house—can you believe it!? In the middle of a pandemic. I went to go take care of everything with her, which meant staying at her house for a few nights (while still social distancing). She had no coffee in the house and I forgot to bring some with me, so I hit up the nice local grocery store and there it was: a bag of Stumptown Holler Mountain Blend, all caramel and citrus and browned butter tasting. I pre-ground it at the grocery store because that’s how my mom likes it, and you know what? It was really nice. We drank it every morning on my visit, and she loved it, and I did too.

Verve Coffee — Bronson French Roast

We couldn’t possibly do a blends guide without featuring at least one French Roast. This is not everyone’s cup of tea, er, coffee, but those who love a darker roast feel passionate about the subject, and it’s wonderful to be able to accommodate all tastes. Verve’s take on the style uses a blend of Colombian coffees to achieve notes of “fudge” and “molasses”. The user reviews on Verve’s website are kind of perfect for it: this blend “hits different”, achieving a lovely roasted character without tasting charbroiled. Get this for the French Roast lover in your family.

Yes Plz

Each week of the Yes Plz subscription is a sequence of unknown delights: sometimes it’s a blend, sometimes it’s a single origin, but whatever they’re shipping is guaranteed to be delicious. Check out all their past offerings here—recent favorites at the Sprudge HQ have included 073, a combo of Peruvian and Colombian coffees, and 070, a seven (!) bean blend evoking old school memories.

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We Love Coffee Blends—Here’s 14 To Try Right Now

Here’s a not-so-secret secret that’s worth sharing loud and proud: we love coffee blends. Let’s say it again with feeling, this time in bold: we love coffee blends! The time-honored tradition of artisan roasters selecting the finest coffee beans from around the world, then combining them together just so to create glorious flavor experiences. What’s not to love?

Single origins are great too, this isn’t an either/or binary kind of thing. But the single-origin has been given a lot of attention over the last few years, perhaps at the expense of the blend. We feel a healthy, well-rounded coffee habit makes room for both, especially when the roast in question is being managed by a high-caliber roasting company the likes of which we’re featuring here.

Today’s selection of blend makers has been pulled from our beloved partners in advertising—the coffee companies that support our daily work here at Sprudge, and who also happen to be some of the very best roasters in the world. For a complete list of advertisers check our right-hand side on this and every article. And to discover even more roasters near you, visit our #StillRoasting project and Sprudge Maps!

Amavida Coffee — Florida Sunrise Blend

Here in Portland, Oregon we long for a long weekend driving along Florida’s coast—stopping off at various cafes and curiosity shops along the way. In the meantime, we can brew a cup of Amavida Coffee’s Florida Sunrise Blend, take a sip, kick back with a reader and daydream about Florida’s Scenic Highway 30A.

Camber Coffee — Moonrise Blend

A luscious, delicious blend of naturally processed Colombian coffee and washed Honduras Santa Barbara. Camber notes they “particularly love this blend for espresso” but you’ll be just as happy brewing it up at home in your favorite brewer.

Counter Culture Coffee — Apollo

A longtime favorite at Sprudge, Apollo is an evolving blend of Ethiopian coffees, currently comprised of Worqa Chalbesa and Rafisa. If you love Ethiopian coffees, this is a particularly gorgeous expression of coffee’s birthplace.

Dogwood Coffee — Mixtape

One of our favorite names for a coffee blend, Mixtape is Dogwood’s ever-changing coffee combo “like one of the mixtapes you made for the person you really like-liked, but didn’t know very well.” Presently it’s a Brazil + Colombia combo, expertly roasted in Minneapolis by the team at Dogwood.

Elixr Coffee — Lunar Lander

Pardon us for saying so, but we think Elixr’s Lunar Lander blend is—wait for it—out of this world. Here you’ll find coffees from Peru, Colombia and Ethiopia, combined for a “light and fruity” blend that tastes great with milk, or as espresso.

Equator Coffees — Wolf It Down

Here’s a good blend for a good cause, created in collaboration with Chef Tyler Florence. $3 from every purchase of Wolf It Down—featuring coffees from Sumatra, Kenya and Colombia—goes to benefit Restaurants Care, an organization supporting restaurant employees impacted by the pandemic.

Go Get Em Tiger — Minor Monuments

If you love a little milk in your coffee (and who can blame ya) GGET’s hero espresso blend, Minor Monuments, is the coffee you seek. You’ll get all kinds of sweet delicious caramel and chocolate flavors, all the more lovely when combined with steamed milk of your choosing. Now that’s good drinking.

Intelligentsia Coffee — Great Lakes Blend

Permit the team at Intelligentsia a bit of double entendre: Great Lakes blend nods to Intelli’s Chicago heritage, but the lakes in question are in fact Lake Kivu, Lake Tanganyika, and the rest of the African Great Lakes found throughout the Great Rift Valley. This coffee, sourced by famed Intelligentsia green buyer Geoff Watts, is comprised of coffees from Kenya, Rwanda, and Burundi, offering a composed portrait of one of coffee’s most storied growing regions.

Joe Coffee Company — The Pause

Here’s another wonderful blend project that helps raise money for a good cause. $1 from every 12oz bag and $5 from every 5-pound bag will be donated to No Kid Hungry, a non-profit focused on youth food security around the country. Presently The Pause features a coffee from Ethiopia, but watch for changes to the blend in the weeks to come.

Olympia Coffee Roasting Company—Little Buddy

Little Buddy is the house blend for Olympia Coffee’s second flagship roastery and cafe, located in Tacoma, Washington, a city very near and dear to our hearts here at Sprudge. (Our founders grew up there!) With flavors of sweet berry, stone fruit, and chocolate this works perfectly at home as an espresso, and we especially like it as an Aeropress or French press.

Partners Coffee — Jumpstart

This is a nice blend of Latin American coffees from the folks at Partners Coffee of New York City, with notes of caramel, poached pear, and “Jordan Almond” which—can we talk about how great that sounds as a tasting note? The Jordan almond, a combination of bitter and sweet meant to evoke the beauty of human life and often used as a wedding treat. I want to drink that.

Pilot Coffee — Anthem

What does it mean to have an anthem? Not a national anthem, mind you, but a personal anthem. What would yours be if you had to pick? For Pilot Coffee of Toronto, Anthem is a blend of lively, interesting, “adventurous” (their words) coffees from Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Kenya, built to express juicy notes of cranberry and apricot. While definitely roasted with filter coffee in mind, I’d love to try this as one of these high volume espresso “coffee shots” that were briefly all the rage a few years ago.

Stumptown Coffee Roasters — Holler Mountain Blend

Here is a brief, true story about Stumptown’s Holler Mountain Blend. Earlier this month someone broke into my mom’s house—can you believe it!? In the middle of a pandemic. I went to go take care of everything with her, which meant staying at her house for a few nights (while still social distancing). She had no coffee in the house and I forgot to bring some with me, so I hit up the nice local grocery store and there it was: a bag of Stumptown Holler Mountain Blend, all caramel and citrus and browned butter tasting. I pre-ground it at the grocery store because that’s how my mom likes it, and you know what? It was really nice. We drank it every morning on my visit, and she loved it, and I did too.

Verve Coffee — Bronson French Roast

We couldn’t possibly do a blends guide without featuring at least one French Roast. This is not everyone’s cup of tea, er, coffee, but those who love a darker roast feel passionate about the subject, and it’s wonderful to be able to accommodate all tastes. Verve’s take on the style uses a blend of Colombian coffees to achieve notes of “fudge” and “molasses”. The user reviews on Verve’s website are kind of perfect for it: this blend “hits different”, achieving a lovely roasted character without tasting charbroiled. Get this for the French Roast lover in your family.

Yes Plz

Each week of the Yes Plz subscription is a sequence of unknown delights: sometimes it’s a blend, sometimes it’s a single origin, but whatever they’re shipping is guaranteed to be delicious. Check out all their past offerings here—recent favorites at the Sprudge HQ have included 073, a combo of Peruvian and Colombian coffees, and 070, a seven (!) bean blend evoking old school memories.

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Green Coffee Prices Are Up - Are You Adjusting Your Prices And So?

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