Gourmet Coffees

Coffee and Exercise - Many of us start their work out in the early morning so there have been questions as to whether it is okay have a cup before your work out.

Coffee Beans - Our complete selection of the various gourmet coffee beans offered by Volcanica Coffee. Our gourmet coffee beans are grown in rich volcanic soil at high mountain elevations.

Costa Rica Coffee - Volcanica Original - Smooth, silky and rich flavor like no other. With a light, clean flavor and wonderful fragrance, Volcanica Costa Rica Original gourmet coffee beans are a world-class coffee with a full-body and excellent acidity.

Costa Rican Coffee Tarrazu - Volcanica Reserve - Bold and rich flavor to pick you up. From the Tarrazu region in Costa Rica, one of the most highly regarded coffee-growing areas. One of the world's greatest gourmet coffee beans with its light, clean flavor and wonderful fragrance.

Costa Rican Coffee Tarrazu - Volcanica Reserve - Bold and rich flavor to pick you up. From the Tarrazu region in Costa Rica, one of the most highly regarded coffee-growing areas. One of the world's greatest gourmet coffee beans with its light, clean flavor and wonderful fragrance.

Blue Mountain Coffee - Very full flavor with prominent fruit flavors. The Rolls-Royce of coffee regarded by many as the best coffee in the world. A full flavor: it has balance, fruit, and acidity and provides all the satisfaction one could want with a strong and intense aroma.

Kona Coffee - Volcanica Gran Reserve - The champagne of Kona coffee. This is the most exclusive of all the Kona gourmet coffee beans with only 5% of the crop producing the Peaberry variety, highly prized for its smooth, full flavor and low acid content.

Hawaiian Kona Coffee - Volcanica Kona Gold - Hawaiian Kona Coffee is deliciously rich, medium-bodied and slightly acidic coffee with a heady aroma and complex and winy taste. It has a full, smooth flavor and is also great for every day drinking.

Decaf Gourmet Coffee - Kona Decaf Coffee - Decaf Gourmet Coffee with a deep and rich volcanic flavor. Decaffeinated with the Swiss water method. The Kona coffee flavor can be described as smooth, intense aroma, nutty and luscious without the caffeine. Medium roast.

Burr Coffee Grinder - The finest burr coffee grinder on the market is the Cusinart Supreme Grind Automatic Burr Mill. This elegant burr coffee grinder with brushed stainless steel has a container to store your beans at the top.

Coffee Recipes - A collection various recipes to enjoy gourmet coffee. Some hot, some cold and some exotic.

Coffee Gift - Looking for the unique gift that will make them feel special? Share your passion for exotic gourmet coffee with our coffee gift box.

Security & Privacy Guarantee -Buy Gourmet Coffee Online - Your online credit card transactions are secure with Volcanica Coffee. We use Secure Socket Layering (SSL), the industry-standard encryption technology that ensures safe Internet transmission of your personal information.

Signature Coffee Gift Box - Coffee Gift Box - Each Signature Coffee Gift Box includes one pound of finest Volcanica Coffees

Gourmet Coffee Gift Wrap - Give a remarkable gourmet coffee gift from Volcanica Coffee. To make it even easier for you we offer gift wrapping for $3.95 per item.

Buy Costa Rica Coffee - One of the finest coffees in the world with a smooth and rich taste.

Costa Rican Estate Coffee - One of the finest estate gourmet coffees from the highly regarded Costa Rican Tarrazu region.

100% Kona Coffee - 100% Kona Coffee from the big island. This is the pure 100% Kona Coffee famous through out the world as one of the finest gourmet coffees.

Pure Kona Coffee - Pure Kona Coffee from the big island. This is the pure Kona Coffee famous through out the U.S. as one of the finest gourmet coffees.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Beans - Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Beans that are 100% pure. Imported directly from the Jamaican Blue Mountains, these coffee beans are the most famous gourmet coffees in the world.

Volcanica Coffee Customer Testimonials - We are very proud that we have a long list of customer that rave about Volcanica Coffee.

Mother's Day Coffee Gift - Mothers Day Coffee Gift - Looking for the unusual gift that will say I love you mom? This Mother's Day share your passion for exotic gourmet coffee with our coffee gift boxes.

Caffeine Content - Drug makers have to label the amount of caffeine content in their offerings, but food and beverage companies don't. This list of familiar products shows how fast your dose can add up.

Iced Coffee Recipe - A Cool Way to Enjoy Coffee during the Hot Months. Iced coffee is an excellent summer refresher but it has not received the attention as its cousin Iced Tea primarily because of careless preparation.

Remove a Coffee Stain - Coffee Stain Removal Tips - How to remove a coffee stain is not as difficult as it may seem. The problem with coffee stain removals is that most people will wait until the item goes through the laundry several days later.

Types of Gourmet Coffee Bean - For the coffee drinker there are two major types of coffee beans. The Caffea arabicais the Arabica bean which is the quality coffee of the world. Arabica coffee is the only coffee that is to be drunk and enjoyed without being blended with other types of beans.

Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee - This extraordinary coffee is grown in the majestic Blue Mountain range in Jamaica reaching approximately 7,402 feet at the highest peak, thus making it is one of the highest grown coffees in the world.

Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee - Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is one of the most sought after coffees in the world. This "Rolls-Royce of coffee" has been satisfying coffee connoisseurs around the globe for more than two centuries and is famous for its exquisite flavor.

Tarrazu Coffee - Located at the more remote lands up the Pirris River basin in the Tarrazú Highlands, this Tarrazú county Estate represents the Costa Rican Tarrazú coffee character, where the coffee is clearly farmed for quality and not quantity, and the altitude is clearly in the cup.

Fair Trade Coffee - At Volcanica Coffee we believe in Fair Trade Coffee which means paying our coffee suppliers a fair wage. This is not your typical company buying the good grade and cheap grade coffee on world markets then blending them together and calling it gourmet coffee.

Costa Rica Gourmet Coffee - Costa Rica coffee is full-bodied coffee with a deep, pungent flavor, excellent acidity, and a hint of smokiness. Beans grown in Costa Rica are the result of a unique combination of climate, elevation and soil. Just right - you can taste the special care that goes into every cup.

Roasted Coffee Beans - Roasting coffee beans is considered an art, as the roaster needs to determine when the process has brought the beans to their peak of flavor.

Gourmet Coffee Blog - An older Blog with posting of articles and comments regarding specialty and gourmet coffee.

Gourmet Coffee Beans Blog - Posting of articles and comments regarding brewing tips, recipes, trivia all about the world of gourmet coffee.

Coffee History - Exactly where and when coffee was first discovered and cultivated is not known, but some authorities believe that it was grown initially in Arabia near the Red Sea about 675 AD.

Best Gourmet Coffee - The best gourmet coffee is from single-source Arabica beans that originate from the slopes of volcanic mountains. The rich volcanic soil combined with the high altitude and abundant moisture from the clouds produce a remarkable coffee that cannot be matched by any other variety

Gourmet Coffees - As a rule the Arabica coffee beans provide the majority of gourmet coffees. The Robusta beans are valued for their high yields and resistance to disease and are widely used in commercial blends.

Specialty Coffee - Specialty Gourmet Coffee - There are two major types of coffee beans species but for coffee connoisseurs only the Arabica beans qualify as Specialty coffee. Arabica beans are the only ones to be drunk on there own, unblended.

Shade Grown Coffee - The Volcanic coffees from Costa Rica and Kona are all shade grown coffees and have been verified that they comply with this designation. We personally inspect our farms to verify they are incompliance.

Perfect Cup of Coffee - Like anything else in life there is bad, just okay and then there is perfect. To get to perfection you really need the knowledge on how to do it and the motivation.

Grinding Gourmet Coffee Beans - The type of coffee grind that you use is important in order to properly match the type of brewing method you will be using. The objective is to get the most flavor out of the ground beans when infused with hot water. The fast rule of thumb is the faster the infusion the finer the grind.

How to Brew Coffee - The basic principal that is common to all types of brewing methods is to soak ground coffee in hot water to extract the flavor and aroma. Since the drip coffee method is the most popular method, this article will focus on brewing the best cup from your drip coffee maker.

How to Make Coffee - Tips on how to make coffee so that you will get the most out of your Volcanica gourmet coffee beans.

I am going to make a series of quick post with links to helpful articles on the Volcanica Gourmet Coffee website.

Coffee Tips - Here are some quick coffee tips to help you make a good cup of coffee.

Jamaica has a real problem on their hands trying to protect their famous Blue Mountain Coffee. Beyond the deception that normally is found in grocery stores and other coffee shops by selling Blue Mountain Blends that actually only contain a smidgen of the original, there is mass counterfeiting going on in the island and around the world.

We applaud these efforts. Volcanica Coffee imports only 100% Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee Beans direct from one of most reputable plantations on the island.

Here is an article on their efforts and on the effects of Hurrican Ivan:

MAVIS BANK, Jamaica — Ranking with truffles and caviar as an exquisite indulgence, Jamaica's famed Blue Mountain coffee recently suffered economic body blows from knockoff artists and Mother Nature.

Industry leaders can't do much about the weather, but they have lobbied the government to protect the reputation of Jamaica's prestigious export and to step up the pace of rebuilding roads to farmland ravaged by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.

With more of their product getting to market and illegal labeling on the wane, the farmers who grow Jamaica's famous beans say they should be able to recover lost production by the end of this decade.

Jamaicans' defense of the Blue Mountain brand shows how a small nation must go to great lengths to protect the authenticity of its produce — or face financial ruin. Read full article.

Food and beverages giant Kraft said it would invest $100 million to build a new plant near St. Petersburg in a bid to satisfy Russia`s growing taste for instant coffee. With a production capacity of 5`000 tons per year, the new plant will work alongside Kraft`s existing coffee-packaging facility near St. Petersburg. The move of production to Russia coincides with a boom in coffee consumption: Russia has become the fastest-growing market for the company in general and coffee in particular, Kraft said in a statement. "Up to now, we have imported coffee from Germany and the U.K., but as demand continues to grow we`ve decided on a plant in Russia," Michel Boon, director for Kraft Foods in Russia, said. The company`s existing coffee plants in Europe have now reached capacity, he added.

The move makes Kraft the second foreign company after Nestle to have a full-cycle coffee operation in Russia. When the plant begins operating in October 2007, it will handle production of Kraft`s Jacobs Monarch, Carte Noire and Maxim brands. Its Maxwell House and Jacobs Aroma brands will continue to be imported from Western Europe and packaged in St. Petersburg. The new plant is to employ some 250 people, Boon said. Kraft will invest $50 million in the St. Petersburg plant`s infrastructure, with the remaining $50 million going into the equipment required to produce freeze-dried coffee, the most expensive type of soluble coffee.

Sales of freeze-dried coffee grew by more than 80% in 2005 in real terms, Kraft said. In November, rival food and beverages conglomerate Nestle started production at its $120 million plant in Timashevsk, in the Krasnodar region. This year, Nestle plans to make 12`000 tons of granulated coffee, sold under its Nescafe Classic brand, at the plant. In February, the government suspended for nine months a 5% import tariff on green, unroasted coffee beans in an effort to support domestic production. In Russia, seen as a traditionally tea-drinking country, 80% of the coffee Russians consume is instant, according to British-based consultancy Euromonitor.