Coffee from around the World - Cuban Serrano Levado Arabica Coffee
While coffee might not be the first item you would associate with Cuba, they do grow a good volume of quality Arabica coffee. It's a wonderful coffee, but tricky to sell online surprisingly. PayPal won't let you take payment for goods from Cuba because of the Trade Embargo - and they get very salty and lock down your account if they find anyone buying Cuban products - I know this from painful experience.
These are the green coffee beans from the sack, they will need roasting before we can make a drink with them. You can see the beans are of all of a similar size indicating they were well sorted, and relatively free of defects.
Roasted they take on a different look entirely, these are roasted medium - cooled just after finishing the first crack of the beans during roasting. This brings out more of the subtle flavours of the coffee - it is a very light and mellow coffee, and it can taste slightly floral with a sweet finish.
To brew it I grind some of the beans into the Aeropress, which I tend to use Inverted to allow the coffee to infuse for longer.
The ground coffee sits at the bottom of the brew chamber.
Then we add hot - but not boiling water to brew the coffee.
The light coloured head that floats on the top of the ground coffee is an infusion of the internal coffee oils released by the hot water.
Now we can add the filter cap to the Aeropress and sit it over our cup.
To brew the coffee you literally push the plunger down which forces the hot water through the coffee. The filter paper in the Aeropress cap stops the ground coffee going into the cup, so we just get a freshly brewed cup of filter coffee.
And there we have it, our freshly brewed cup of Cuban coffee - all ready for drinking.
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I've never seen an Aeropress, thanks for sharing that! Had I just seen that on a counter I would have never guessed what its used for so its nice to be enlightened.
I sell hundreds of these per month, mostly e-bay and amazon. It's quicker and cleaner then a cafetière because you can quickly eject the ground coffee puck into a bin, brews lovely fresh filter coffee and is very compact so easy to travel with as well.
Great post my dear friend @c0ff33a! Coffee is my favorite drink... hot, cold or warm I don’t care. Coffee in the morning, while having lunch, during the day or even while dinner. Yeah I am a coffeeholic.
Freshly brewed coffee like this can be amazing, so many different flavours and tastes in coffee from different areas around the world.
Amazing!
I like my coffee black like Italian expresso, but a little bit more water like 50 ml instead 25ml
A good choice, the extra water through will take the edge off the espresso. Thanks for taking the time to look at my post and comment.
Wish I really liked coffee, that looks really good and I hope you enjoy your cup! Cheers
Thanks for taking a look, it was really nice - even though I did this just before leaving work for the day!
looks like a great cup of coffee. I drink coffee every day and enjoy the taste of many different kinds. your photos are great ❤️
Plenty to enjoy about it, and I have a warehouse full of the stuff! Thanks for dropping in and leaving a comment.
If you have a coffee shop in my area, I'm your loyal customer. ☕😌
Nice post my dear friend
Thanks for your continued support my friend :-)
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