What You Need to Know about Green Coffee Beans
The coffee beans that you buy in a store or at Starbucks are not what you’ll find if you went to a coffee farm in Columbia. Our favorite caffeinated beverage is made from the roasted seeds of a coffee plant. Even though they are not actually beans, we commonly refer to these seeds as coffee beans. Green coffee beans are collected from coffee farms in places like Columbia and shipped all over the world where they are then roasted and ground to make the coffee we buy at the grocery store.
The fruit of the coffee plant is picked by hand from the coffee tree and then processed by machines that strip off the fruit flesh. After going through a drying process, what come out are our coffee beans. These beans aren’t what you’ll see in a bag of coffee beans from the supermarket, however. Green coffee beans are much smaller than a roasted coffee bean and don’t have very good flavor.
Raw green coffee beans are a great way to purchase your coffee. These beans can be stored for years before going bad unlike already roasted coffee beans which will lose flavor within two weeks of their roasting. Coffee bean roasters are very affordable now so anyone can prepare a fresh, tasty cup of coffee!
Green coffee beans can be purchased from local specialty coffee shops but the best place to buy wholesale green coffee beans is online. Many coffee distributors will allow you to buy bulk green coffee beans for a fraction of the price you’d pay at the grocery store for already roasted coffee beans.
Roasting coffee beans in your own home is a fast growing hobby just like home brewing beer. It’s enjoyable, easy, affordable, and gives you one of the best tasting cups of coffee you’ve ever had. So start roasting your own coffee beans today!