Journey to the heart of Africa: Coffee in Rwanda
In the tiny African state of Rwanda, the coffee tradition is over 100 years old, today it dominates the country's economy and plays a pivotal role in the subsistence economy of hundreds of thousands of families.
Millions of beans a day: Brazil
Yes, a coffee giant but also a country with many facets: Brazil is an increasingly prosperous economy: from plantation to cup.
They wear neither cape nor mask. They carry no sword nor shield, and certainly have no wings nor tentacles!
Nonetheless, the figure of the Q grader has an almost mythological charm, not to mention marked organoleptic abilities.
Let's discover the mysterious aura that lies behind this coffee “superhero"!
Curiosity is what keeps us alive. It is curiosity, the desire to discover new things, that leads us to doing our job better. With a little more curiosity, for example, I’m sure we can even find a thousand ways to extract coffee!
Today my curiosity leads me to focus on an accessory for use with conical drippers: The LilyDrip. (In fact, I also tried it with flat-base filters, but I think I should keep that to myself!).
To separate the two main components in a cup of coffee, namely water and the coffee itself, we basically have two alternatives: decantation - typical of systems such as Ibrik - or filtration - common in all percolation systems.
Coffee filtering systems can be made up of different types of material: paper, fabric, metal, ceramic and even glass (although less used)
