by Victor Aimi | Jul 20, 2014 | Uncategorized
Did you know the following about Coffee Roasting and the type of Roast you decide on? ( The last one surprises most people) A) The darker the bean bean is roasted, the more it loses the flavors of its origin. At the same time it also starts to absorb the taste of the...
by Victor Aimi | Jul 14, 2014 | Uncategorized
Roasted a fresh batch of our Everglades House Blend today. It was a Full City roast and we will be cupping it tomorrow and if it cups as well as we think it will, then we will package it up . Our Everglades house blend is a combination of Brazilian, Colombian and...
by Victor Aimi | Jul 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
Calusa Coffee Roasters is now up and running and shipping its first roast of Colombian Supremo and Brazilian Santos Single Origin Coffees. The Diedrich roasted the coffee to perfection, with of course, just a little help from our master roaster and is fantastic and...
by Victor Aimi | Jun 28, 2014 | Brazil
We started roasting Brazil Cerrado yesterday… Well, I should clarify that not all of us roasted as the foreman of the project rested while the other roasted and bagged the coffee ( see photo).. The Brazil Cerrado is located in the Cerrado Region. This region is...
by Victor Aimi | Jun 24, 2014 | Coffee
Next week Calusa Coffee Roasters will have Sumatra Mandheling available… Many consider Mandehling coffee of Sumatra one of the world’s very finest. From Indonesia and grown near the port of Padang, Sumatra has a rich, smooth flavor and a magnificent full...
by Victor Aimi | Jun 14, 2014 | Roasters
To start off with and to clarify, the opposite of specialty coffee is commercial coffee. From the coffee buyers viewpoint, the most immediately noticeable difference between commercial and specialty coffees is packaging, Here are some of the other differences...
by Victor Aimi | Jun 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
We are often asked this question and therefore I thought in this blog post I would give just a very brief description. Although there are a wide variety of opinions on just exactly is Fair Trade because their is not a universally accepted definition, but basically...
by Victor Aimi | Jun 3, 2014 | Coffee
The ventilation system for the new the roaster at Calusa has just been installed so I thought I would take this time to write a little more about the Diedrich roaster and explain what type of roaster it is.. The Diedrich is what called a drum roaster.. A drum roaster...
by Victor Aimi | May 29, 2014 | Uncategorized
Here are some elements to avoid when storing your coffee in order to make it stay fresh longer. Although at Calusa we recommend that you only by enough coffee in small amounts in order for you too always have fresh roasted coffee available. We also recommend that you...
by Victor Aimi | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
It grows on trees, originally appearing as white blossoms and quickly developing into round ‘cherries’. Inside the cherries are twin coffee beans that coffee growers harvest. Occasionally there is only a single bean inside: these are called peaberries and are prized...
