Culture Of Coffee Essay

As many of you know, I am a barista. This isn’t a surprising fact, I talk about my job a lot, because I love it. The culture around coffee has been relatively intriguing to me in recent months - most likely a spark began by the fact I now work as barista trainer at Starbucks, and I have been working with my store in increase my palate for coffee itself. The idea of coffee in itself is interesting, as well as all the different forms of consumption and culture surrounding this unique beverage. In this paper today, I’m going to cover the origination of coffee, the culture of consumption, coffee tasting, growing regions, and coffee profiles.
Coffee itself is one of the leading beverages of the world - just matched with tea worldwide, even surpassing tea in the United States. Though there are a lot of historically fictional and inaccurate accounts on the true beginnings of coffee, the drink originated in Yemen during the 15th century, but the plant gene really started and was …show more content…
For example, a French Press and Pour Over will produce stronger, more flavorful brews. Softbrew and Automatic coffee makers will produce a weaker cup.
However, professional coffee tastings will necessarily not use these methods of brew at all. Also called coffee cupping, coffee tasting often requires grounds to be actually submerged in the coffee so that you can taste all aromas and flavors. Not all cupping sessions use the same method of brew, for instance, my semi professional sessions have all been on either a clover machine or a french press.
When tasting coffee, one must look past the initial “coffee” flavor. For people who have only ever tried one or two cups of coffee off an automatic brewer in the breakroom at work, this can be a strange experience at first. The tasting process begins with smelling the coffee itself. The aroma can be described in many different ways, like floral, rubbery, metal, earthy, chocolate, animal like, or even