Why is X Café coffee extract different than other extracts?
The X Café method of coffee extraction uses pure triple filtered hot water at high pressure to make our 30 to 1 ratio coffee extract. Most people don’t know that a roasted coffee bean is more than 80% wood fiber and only 20% or less extractable flavor. That is why you throw away spent coffee grinds (wood fiber) after you are done brewing! Picture a roasted coffee bean as being a flavorful and fragrant little piece of wood. Your job is to wash the flavor and fragrance out of the wood to make your beverage. When you grind coffee at home prior to brewing it, you are exposing more of the coffee bean’s flavor / fragrance components to the hot water passing over it. The hot water is both the solvent and the carrier of the bean flavor and fragrance into your cup. At X Café, we roast all our own coffee just prior to extraction. Moments later we grind this freshly roasted coffee and convey those grinds into one of our patented coffee extractors. The entire process is nitrogen flushed, sealed an