Does Moccona Coffee Originate From Kona, Hawaii?
For the majority of coffee drinkers, the green coffee beans are something alien to them, in their endeavour to find a coffee that they can call their favorite brew. Again, a fact, unbeknown to the masses is that it is the quality of the ‘green coffee beans’ that impart the flavor of your coffee blend. Although totally unusable in the brewing of coffee in it’s raw green unripened state – ripened coffee beans have a storage life of approximately 12 months. This is a significantly longer storage life than for both roasted and ground coffee. With the price of some boutique coffees it is hard to conceive that coffee is actually grown from trees, but, it is the actual process of coffee production that is so labor intensive. Beans, in their raw state are picked by hand, both the ripe and unripened cherries. However, it is only the ripe cherries that have to be processed to produce the green coffee beans that are marketed and shipped for further processing. Methods used to remove the outer hul