Today marks the start of a series of comics about how coffee is made! These are a collaboration between myself and JT Peifer of Feisty Goat Coffee, who’s been kind enough to write up very thorough material about how coffee’s produced, and also kind enough to send me a bag of delicious, delicious coffee beans.
I have long been a coffee enthusiast, but I confess I didn’t know much about it going into this. I had a feel for which blends I liked, but not much beyond that, so this will be pretty educational for me too.
PS! JT and I have been planning this series for a while, but last week I ran across this amazing piece about coffee from Dan Zettwoch! Isn’t it lovely?
Bet Starbucks uses robusta >:( nasty coffee
@Angelina: Actually, no! Starbucks is pretty exclusively Arabica, I’m told. What you’re identifying as nasty – and what a lot of people don’t like about Starbucks – is the style of roasting, which we’ll get into in a later comic. As I understand it, Robusta is used mostly just in crappy instant coffees, and it’s added to some fancy espresso blends, because it ups the caffeine content, and adds body, and makes possible the “crema” finish on the top.