Coffee is grown and farmed in countries located within the ‘Coffee Belt’, the region surrounding the Equator. This region provides optimal environment required for coffee to flourish. Asia, African, South and Central American countries fall within the coffee belt. Let’s dive into the origins of coffee and some of the key characteristics of coffee…
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Caffeine is a key component in coffee… and possibly the reason why many of us started drinking coffee. Remember those canned coffee that was always within reach, and how they’d mysteriously vanish quickly closer to exam dates? If you drink coffee daily, you would consume at least 365 cups of coffee in the past year.…
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Coffee aside, Alliance Coffee also serves tea for the non-coffee drinkers via our specialty mobile coffee carts. A common request we get is for non-caffeinated drinks and healthy teas. This got us searching, exploring and tasting exotic teas from across the globe. Yerba Mate is one of them: Doesn’t look like much eh? You might…
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So, you like coffee and want to know a little bit more about it. Or maybe you have learnt to brew some delicious coffee at home, but don’t know what type of coffee beans to choose. Here are 3 specialty coffee books that you can easily pick up and bolster your personal coffee vocab and…
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Reaching out to new customers is THE way for most business to grow. However, today’s consumers are smarter, more skeptical and more wary of advertising and marketing done by companies. Plus, you’d probably agree that it is getting difficult to capture the attention of your market and to convince them that you can help them…
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Coffee contains thousands of compounds within its beans, of which caffeine is most famous. Unfortunately, not everyone can take caffeine. Some coffee lovers might experience stomach ulcers, heart palpitations, anxiety, heartburn and the likes. Hence, the coffee industry has been developing and decaffeinating coffee since the 1980s. How to Decaffeinate Coffee? All coffee decaffeination processes undergo…
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