Organic Gourmet Coffee is the safest and the healthiest uniquely flavoured coffee for your unique taste buds.

Coffee itself is a term that relates gourmet. What is Gourmet Coffee then? And what again is Organic Gourmet Coffee? Are they just different ways of addressing the same old coffee? “Yes” and “No”! Organic Gourmet Coffee is basically the same old coffee and yet has a lot of differences with the regular coffee. We shall know about these similarities and differences in the next few paragraphs.

Organic Gourmet Coffee: Organic Gourmet Coffee is the premium quality coffee (predominantly some of the best varieties of Coffea Arabica) that is grown organically, i.e. without using any artificial chemical fertilizers, pesticides or weedicides and flavoured with different organic flavours like vanilla, mint, almond, mocha, caramel, amaretto etc. to suit different tastes. The term “Organic Flavours” here means the flavours that have been derived from the natural sources like extracts of plants, fruits and flowers etc. through organic processes and no artificial flavouring agents are used. Absolutely no chemicals or inorganic agents are used in any stage of processing Organic Gourmet Coffee.

Types of Organic Gourmet Coffee: Organic Gourmet Coffee is classified depending upon the following factors.

• Flavour: Here, the types of Organic Gourmet Coffee mean its flavours. Each flavour refers to a type. Although there may be many such types, depending upon the customer’s demands, blender’s innovativeness and availability of organic flavours; but some of most popular types are Vanilla, Mocha, Roasted Almonds, Roasted Hazelnuts, Mint, Chocolate, Caramel, Amaretto etc. What you choose is entirely your discretion.
• Presence of Caffeine: In this case, Organic Gourmet Coffee is divided into two types, namely; caffeinated and decaffeinated. From the point of view of health, decaffeinated one will be the best (but you may have to compromise with the taste and flavour). If a bit of caffeine everyday does not matter to you as long as it is organic, you may go for the caffeinated Organic Gourmet Coffee to enjoy the coffee to its full.
• Milling: Milling or processing coffee beans is a very important factor in deciding the quality of gourmet coffee. Here are the types of milling and their pros and cons.
  

  • Dry Milling: Dry Milling is the most widely used method as it is cheaper than Wet Milling. Dry Milling basically means separating beans from dried coffee berries. This drying again, is done in two ways as follows.

    • Machine Drying: This is risky as well as costly. Risky in the sense that both over roasting or under roasting may spoil the flavour and taste of the beans. The machine costs much and consumes a lot of power too. Further, sometimes some strange smells (fumes, burnt parts etc.) from the machine can get into the beans, spoiling their flavour.

    • Sun Drying: Although this is very cost effective and there is never the risk of over roasting of the beans, still this method is not much used on high quality beans, as this is practiced mostly by small farmers who cannot afford machines. Still, this could be the best way to derive the best out of high quality beans. So, if you are going for it, make sure the beans you are buying are of superior quality or the product is a high end product from a reputed company.

  • Wet Milling: This process is costly, lengthy and not environment friendly (uses a lot of fresh water to wash) unless it is applied for Organic Gourmet Coffee beans, where no chemicals are involved. But it is one of the surest ways of producing good quality gourmet beans and big firms often use this method.

Tips for Best Buy: These tips can help you pick up the best Organic Gourmet Coffee.

• Buy only the fresh green (not roasted) beans and roast them at home. Do never go for that “Aged Coffee” tag on the product. It means nothing. It is just another gimmick to sell products. Coffee is not wine and it looses its flavour and taste on ageing.
• Buy only the “Hundred Percent Organic Gourmet Coffee” beans. Do not compromise with “Organic” or “Contains Organic” types.
• Look for the uniformity in size, shape and colour of the beans. Presence of discoloured, wrinkled and smaller beans in the lot indicates poor quality.
• Go only for those flavours which can possibly be organic. Some flavours are not found in nature and are purely synthetic.

Availability: Packed and pre-ground normal gourmet coffee is readily available in stores, but Organic Gourmet Coffee is not. Whole beans of Organic Gourmet Coffee are further less available. You may not find them at your local grocery shop. You can check them with the coffee roasters or blenders, but again, roasters are not situated in every locality. So, the place to search within your reach remains the internet. You can search for the sellers offering the Whole Organic Gourmet Coffee Beans of the variety and quality of your choice, within your affordable limits and can also read in details about the manufacturers, contents, certification, shipping etc. You can also place some orders with your local coffee dealer if he is that capable.

Benefits: The benefits of Organic Gourmet Coffee include health benefits due to absence of chemical residues (as no chemical fertilizers or pesticides are used), benefit to the environment due to the same reason and above all, a safe taste of your choice. A cup of hot coffee with a flavour of your choice is one of the most pleasing things to start the day with.

Drawbacks: The biggest drawbacks of Organic Gourmet Coffee remain its lack of availability and high price.

The Day after Tomorrow: The future of Organic Gourmet Coffee surely seems bright. Gourmet Coffee had always been in people’s list of favourites. Now that their awareness is growing towards organic products, Organic Gourmet Coffee promises a better future.

If you want to witness some of the best and most pleasing tastes in the world, you must have a sip of Organic Gourmet Coffee. Remember, it is safe!

This article was contributed by Aparup Mukherjee