Starbucks Coffee Beans Origin

The beans: Coffee beans: Origin of Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Ily, cup of coffee

I visited a coffee estate on a journey to Costa Rica with Contiki Travel. An ardent coffee fan (okay, adjoining addict), I was asked a very humiliating question: "Do you know where your coffee beans come from? "Costa Ricans are drinking coffee at home without added sugars or creams (forget gourd seasoning lattés).

Instead, it is drunk "like a good cup of wine," said my travel leader at the Don Juan Coffee Plantation - just dark, so you can whirl the flavour and scent and taste of the different flavours. And, as with a good cup of coffee, the flavour of the coffee depends directly on where it is cultivated and made.

"When you don't know where it comes from, you don't know why you do it or don't like it," said the itinerary. However, finding out where your coffee comes from can be difficult. Check the website of your regional coffee store to see if you can find out.

The Stumptown Coffee Roasters is the flagship of the coffee industry and offers coffee producer profile on its website. But the larger coffee beans are a little less legible - mainly because of their size and the need to come from all large coffee areas. However some of their more common mixes can be tacked, so I've dug a little bit.

Of course, Starbucks purchases its coffee from three major coffee producing areas, Latin America, Africa and Asia-Pacific, as a spokesman for the coffee imperium states. But its characteristic coffee mixtures come mainly from the Asia-Pacific area. Conversely, Dunkin' doughnuts gets their only from Latin America, says Michelle King, Director of General PR at Dunkin' Brands, Inc.

It is made from nine beans obtained through local distributors in Latin America, India and Africa, says Master Barista Giorgio Milos. MonoArabica, the company's first original coffee in 80 years, was recently introduced to the market in Brazil, Guatemala and Ethiopia. The other big name in the market is Green Mountain Coffee, Inc., which purchases beans from Latin America, Indonesia and Africa.

The Nantucket Blend, one of their most favoured mixtures, is 100 percent of its origin in Central America, Indonesia and East Africa. Latino coffee is well-balanced and known for its crunchy, light acids and aromas of chocolate and coconut. A spokesman for Starbucks says the acid content in the mouth is a consequence of the climatic conditions, the vulcanic soils and the fermented processes used in the production of these café.

The flavours of Africa's coffee ranges from berry to tropical spy, as well as lemons, grepefruit, flowers and chocolates. The spokesman for Starbucks says some of the world's most extraordinary and sought-after coffee comes from this area. In the Asia-Pacific area, there are coffee varieties that vary from the penetrating herb spice and deepness characteristic of semi-washed Indonesian coffee to the balance of acid and complexities that characterize the Pacific Island wash beans.

Due to their full taste and personality, the Asian-Pacific beans are contained in many Starbucks typical coffee mixtures.