How to brew your personal best.

All coffees are not created equal. Brewing the perfect cup of coffee is an art as much as science, and that's why playing with coffee to suit your individual taste can be a lot of fun.

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What's in a coffee bean?

Gourmet coffee drinkers prefer high-quality Arabica beans to cheaper, lower- quality robusta, but the difference doesn’t stop there. The Green Coffee Classification Chart provided by The Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) defines the characteristics of five classes of coffee: specialty grade, premium grade, exchange grade, below standard grade, and off grade.

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Propylene Glycol is widely used in flavored coffee.

Flavored coffees require a carrier to bind the flavors to the beans at the end of the roasting process. The most prevalent among these carriers is propylene glycol, a popular industrial solvent found in dyes, inks and antifreeze. Although the food industry and the FDA may consider propylene glycol safe when used in small amounts, that’s not okay at Passion Café!

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