Everyone should drink what he likes. Surely not everyone has the time and desire to research everything that belongs to everyday life. So here is a brief comparison for you what specialty coffee is and how it differs from industrial coffee.
Industrial Coffee
- 95 % of worldwide harvested coffee
- In hot air roasting tons of coffee beans are roasted in 1-3 minutes.
- In this short time the coffee beans do not degrade the chlorogenic acid and the coffee aromas can not develop fully.
- The huge roasting machines reach temperatures of up to 600 or 800 ° C.
- As a result, more pollutants such as melanoidine and acrylamide are built up.
- The coffee is predominantly darker roasted and has correspondingly more roast aromas. These can cover unintended flavors of a poorer / cheaper raw coffee quality.
- The typical supermarket and Tchibo coffee.
- Due to the fast roasting at high temperature the coffee is more bitter and less stomach friendly, but cheeper.
- In the area of sustainability, industrial coffee is also worse – cultivation also on monocultural Industrial plantations, long supply chain and lack of transparency for the end customer.
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Specialty Coffee
- 5 % of worldwide harvested coffee
- The green coffee used is in a different league! It is rated by the Specialty Coffee Association according to a uniform system with 0-100 points. From 80 points, a variety is referred to as a “specialty”.
- This coffee is roasted in 2-digit kg batches in drum roasters for up to 20 min. gently of up to 200 ° C.
- This degrades the chlorogenic acids as much as possible and makes the coffee neither bitter nor burnt tasting.
- The often better / more expensive raw coffee can also be roasted brighter so that fine fruit notes determine the aroma.
- But even darker roasted espresso is easier to digest since the chlorogenic acids are almost completely reduced.
- The coffee is often more expensive, but tastes better and is more digestible.
- Specialty coffee often promises more sustainability in the cup, which starts with the organic cultivation of small farmers often in forest areas, through fair and direct trade to transparency.
- You get the coffee offline and online at the roster of your trust.
Ultimately, everyone has to weigh for themselves what he likes and the cup of coffee is worth. Enjoy!
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