Espresso Coffee-A Gourmet's Delight

Posted: Mar 05, 2011 |Comments: 0 |

If you love coffee and enjoy tasting different flavours of your favourite beverage, you are probably no stranger to the pleasures of a nice hot cup of espresso coffee. Widely available, the espresso coffee is one of the best liked and most popular coffee flavours of the world. The unmistakable aroma, the inviting foam at the top and the taste of fine coffee are just some of the things that attract coffee lovers from all around to a steaming cup of espresso.

It is unfortunate that many of us tend to look at coffee as comprising just a handful of the well-known flavours that we've tasted so many times already. Yes, we sometimes do get other flavours like coffee laced with chocolate, or almond, or even fruit-flavoured varieties, but they taste rather artificial and strained. After all, any coffee that doesn't taste natural can be such a disappointing affair.

Connoisseurs of coffee can now regale in the fact that recent research into coffee flavours has yielded many new exciting varieties that they can enjoy. They are natural-tasting yet offer you a distinctive taste that you haven't tasted before. Regular, latte or espresso coffee made of these flavours is a treat to remember.

Just be warned that some of these can prove to be a tad expensive. Coffee flavours available today fit all sorts of budgets. Speaking of expensive coffee, some of the exclusive varieties available today are strictly gourmet stuff. They are probably not for regular consumption and call for special occasions or celebrations. Kopi Luwak is one such variety of expensive coffee. This variety hails from Indonesia and is made from coffee berry beans that have been eaten by the Asian Palm Civet, and then passed through its digestive tract. This process of digestion lends Kopi Luwak its distinctive taste because when these beans pass through the civet's stomach, they are injected with proteolytic enzymes that make shorter peptides and produce extra free amino acids.

The beans are passed out through the bowels which are then collected, thoroughly rinsed and washed, dried in the sun, roasted lightly and brewed. All this lends a very unique taste to the coffee made with these beans which is less bitter than regular coffee.

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