Back to Basics
Coffee that comes from different growing regions is referred to as this.
What is a blend?
A coffee from one growing area or country is called this.
What is Single Origin?
This is the stage 6-9 minutes into roasting where the beans double in size and make a crackling sound as they expand.
What is the First Pop?
The process of removing caffeine from green coffee beans is called this.
What is decaffeination?
What does CAFE Practices stand for (the acronym)?
Coffee and Farmer Equity
These are the 2 types of blends.
What are Pre-Roast and Post-Roast?
The year Pike Place Roast was released.
What is 2008?
Coffee beans smell like this during the Yellowing stage of roasting.
What is hay or wet grass?
This decaffeination method uses a solvent called Methylene Chloride to remove caffeine.
What is Direct Contact?
The country Khaldi and his goats were from.
What is Ethiopia?
The year FlavorLock Bags were introduced.
What is 1985?
Aged Coffee comes from this growing region.
What is Asia Pacific?
This is the title of the person overseeing roasting.
What is Master Roaster?
This is what happens in the Natural Decaffeination Process.
Liquid CO2 is forced into a tank filled with green coffee beans in water. The force of the CO2 draws out and dissolves the caffeine.
Name the 4 Fundamentals.
Water, Freshness, Proportion, Grind
This is the team in Seattle that works to ensure each blend is thoughtfully created.
What is the Global Coffee Development Team?
This was our first blend, created in 1971.
What is House Blend?
After coffee is roasted, it is stored in silos with this.
What is Nitrogen?
This is what happens in the Swiss Water Process.
Coffee beans are soaked in warm water creating "flavor-charged water" that is then filtered out using activated charcoal filters.
Verona is made up of these 2 coffees.
What is Yukon and Italian?
Before there was Frappuccino Roast, we used this.
What is double-strength Italian Roast stored in large plastic containers in a fridge?
This iconic roast launched in 1975.
What is Espresso Roast?
Name the 5 stages of roasting.
Yellow, First Pop, City Roast, Second Pop, Dark Roast
Name the 3 main methods of decaffeination.
Natural Process (or CO2), Swiss Water Process, Direct Contact (solvent)
The 4 components of CAFE Practices