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About Caledonia Coffee Roasters |
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 Caledonia Coffee Roasters provide some of Scotland’s finest products. By using the newest fluid-bed roasting system to produce a decidedly clean, un-smoky taste and wonderful colour to the coffee, our coffee-roasting expertise, and the best arabica beans, the coffee’s full flavour and aroma promise are brought out consistently in every batch.
Roasting on the premises, we offer a full menu of top grade single origin Arabica beans. Our range of coffee and tea blends have been carefully developed alongside their chosen Scottish name to create a positive association not only with the images on the packages, but with the character of each coffee or tea blend inside. For instance, the Laird and Lady’s Choice coffee blend is “rich and flavourful, complex, with a smooth, soft, almost buttery finish”. Our complete range of coffee and tea includes a comprehensive selection of single origin beans, unique and traditional coffee blends, additional decaffeinated coffee and a small selection of our in-house flavoured coffee. A selection of black, green, scented, herbal, and flavoured tea, along with our Scottish blends is also available. Caledonia Coffee  |
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 Basically, there are two commercial species of coffee beans available, Arabica and Robusta. Arabica beans are primarily offered by specialty coffee roasters. Due to their lower cost, Robusta is the bean used in most commercial brands of coffee. The Robusta plant contains about 2.5 times more caffeine than the Arabica - one of the reasons instant coffee can give you a caffeine buzz.
Coffee is native to Africa, but the Arabica plant, the only plant able to produce a high quality coffee, originates in Ethiopia. For this reason, Ethiopian coffee, especially Yirgacheffe, is often referred to as “Ethiopia’s Gift to the World”. Over the centuries, Arabica coffee plants have been carried and cultivated throughout the tropical world. So if there is only one original Arabica coffee plant, you may be wondering why there is such a selection of coffees available. It is the varying soil conditions, climates and elevations which determine a coffee bean’s characteristics and unique flavour components. This is why a Colombian bean will produce a different taste and aroma than, say, a Sumatran bean.
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