New Website...New Look...New Feel at Barista Guy's Coffee!

Barista Guy's Coffee has completed the transfer of our Domain name to GoDaddy.com in order to bring you faster more reliable service via our website.  We have also altered the look and feel of our website and incorporated our blog into the website for a more streamlined experience while offering all of the same content you expect to see...Look for future upgrades to include video tutorials & how to's on the in's & out's of the coffee roasting and specialty coffee business, along with more exciting merchandise via our store widget.

Do you really know your coffee?

A coffee bean is the seed of the coffee plant (the pit  inside the red or purple fruit). The fruits, coffee cherries or coffee berries, most commonly contain two stones with their flat sides together. Coffee beans consist mostly of endosperm that contains 0.8 – 2.5 % caffeine, which is one of the main reasons the plants are cultivated. As coffee is one of the world’s most widely consumed beverages, coffee beans are a major cash crop, and an important export product for some countries.

Species of coffee plant include Coffea arabica, Coffea benghalensis, Coffea canephora, Coffea congensis, Coffea excelsa, Coffea gallienii, Coffea bonnieri, Coffea mogeneti, Coffea liberica, and Coffea stenophylla. The seeds of different species produce coffee with slightly different characteristics.

Coffea arabica accounts for about 75% of the world’s coffee trade, while Coffea canephora (syn. Coffea robusta) is cultivated where Coffea arabica does not thrive, and Coffea liberica and Coffea excelsa are grown in limited areas across the globe. In a crop of coffee, a small percentage of cherries contain a single bean, instead of the usual two. This is called a peaberry.

A brief History of Coffee

As beverages go coffee in it’s present form has only been around for about six centuries, while tea and wine go back several thousand years. The tradition of flavoring and sweetening coffee goes back to the era when coffee was first drunk in the Middle East and Europe, for instance Cafe au Vin, a recipe of which dared to blend port wine and french roast coffee was one of the ways in which coffee was first savored. At the time, the only sweetener used was Cardamon. Cardamon comes from the seeds of a ginger-like plant which imparts it’s sweet, spicy flavor to the coffee.  The original Arabic word for coffee was in fact the same word used for wine ” Qahwah”. Cafe au Vin brings out the fruity complexity of the coffee and the coffee adds a full bodied yet silken texture to the amazing taste.

In Vienna, coffee’s first stop in Europe, shopkeepers served complex coffee drinks which included steamed milk, whipped cream, cinnamon, vanilla, and chocolate. Which gives us the present day incarnations of our espresso based drinks.

On-Line Coffee Store Now Open

Barista Guy's  new On-Line Store is now open for business. We had a major restructuring of our website and found that the old system was to cumbersome for our vistors to use as well as for our team to manage. We have gone exclusively with Google Checkout for payment processing, which when combined with the new Google Store Gadget provides for a very seamless buying experience. This very same store gadget has been exported to our Blog as well, giving the customer the option of buying from either location with the same service and turn around time that you would experience through our main website. You will find a variety of coffee, gifts, and equipment located all in one convenient place, no need to search, simply scroll down the page and buy.  We also offer a monthly coffee subscription service which brings fresh roasted coffee to your door twice a month at a discounted rate off our already low prices.

You can also visit our Barista Guy's Cafe Press store for T-shirts, Hats, Aprons, and mugs.