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Cangkir dan biji kopi

Terlepas dari benar atau salah, kopi memang menjadi minuman dan teman setia baik dikala sendiri maupun bersama. Bahkan almarhum Mbah Surip yang sempat tenar lewat lagu “tak gendong  dan bangun tidur” ini pernah bertutur bahwa dirinya orang yang paling hoby dalam meminum kopi. sehari ia menghabiskan kurang lebih hingga 21 kali. Sebenarnya seperti apakah kopi sendiri pengaruhnya terutama untuk kesehatan tubuh kita….???

Meskipun kopi pertama kali dikenal oleh manusia sebagai tanaman obat, dunia kedokteran modern sudah lama mencurigai kopi sebagai penyebab/pemicu berbagai penyakit. Mengapa kopi, bukan makanan/minuman lainnya? Mungkin karena kopi sama sekali tidak mempunyai kandungan nutrisi, tapi dapat membuat manusia merasa lebih baik tanpa sebab2 yang jelas.

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Indonesian coffee exporters A. Syafrudin and Asnawi Saleh

The bad news is that I screwed up when I told you Caffe Vita’s cupping of Sumatran coffee was on Wednesday at 10 a.m. I was looking at the wrong month’s calendar.

The good news is that Caffe Vita did, in fact, have a tasting of Sumatran coffee — including civet coffee or Kopi Luwak — at that time. They always have tastings at 10 a.m. on Wednesdays.

The even better news is that there’s another Sumatran cupping tomorrow (Friday) at 10 a.m. It’s free and open to the public.

The grower who was expected to attend didn’t make it to Seattle, but two guys who are responsible for bringing a lot of Sumatran coffee to the U.S. will be there. They are exporters A. Syafrudin of PT. Sabani Internasional in Jakarta and Asnawi Saleh from the parent company, PT. Indokom Citra Persada in Surabaya, East Java.

Caffe Vita has held several tastings of Sumatran coffee since its roaster and green coffee buyer, Mason Sager, and Michael Hebb of One Pot visited that Indonesian island last month.

They share moving stories about the area and the growers they met, along with divine Sumatran coffee they tasted and bought.

Sager explained that the Kopi Luwak — coffee that’s eaten by wild cats called civets, then retrieved from their droppings before being processed and roasted — contains particularly good coffee, because the civet “has an uncanny ability to seek out and eat the ripest coffee beans it can find.”

With a completely straight face, Hebb said, “It’s really, really pure in its flavors. It’s incredibly well washed.”

Sorry about the screw-up, and hope to see you at 10 a.m. Friday (tomorrow) at the Caffe Vita on Capitol Hill, 1005 E Pike St.

Original post : http://blog.seattletimes.nwsource.com/coffee/2009/04/23/another_civet_coffee_tasting_a.html

Aroma kopi Aceh sudah sejak lama terkenal di Indonesia, mungkin pula di dunia. Aceh adalah salah satu penghasil kopi terbesar di negeri kepulauan ini. Tanah Aceh menghasilkan sekitar 40 persen biji kopi jenis Arabica tingkat premium dari total panen kopi di Indonesia. Dan Indonesia merupakan pengekspor biji kopi terbesar keempat di dunia. Bicara kopi Aceh pasca tsunami, tak bisa lepas dari berdatangannya komunitas internasional di bumi Serambi Mekkah ini. Mayoritas mereka juga menyukai kopi Aceh. Tak kurang dari seorang Bill Clinton, yang mantan Presiden Amerika Serikat itu pun, mengagumi kopi Aceh. Utusan Perserikatan Bangsa Bangsa untuk korban tsunami itu, siap mempromosikan kopi Aceh, ke seluruh dunia melalui sebuah industri kopi di negerinya, Starbucks Coffee. Melalui dirinya, Starbucks Coffee telah menyatakan siap membeli kopi produksi Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam itu. Menurut Clinton, Starbucks Coffee telah menyetujui untuk mengambil kopi dari Aceh. Industri kopi itu tidak hanya membeli tapi juga mencantumkan dimana kopi itu berasal, yaitu tentu dengan label kopi Aceh.

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ICE Futures U.S. arabica coffee rose Thursday as fund buying keyed on momentum tied to bullish supply outlooks.

Most-active March coffee settled up 95 points at $1.4465 a pound and the nearby December contract also settled 95 points higher at $1.4415.

Coffee futures have risen nearly 9% since mid-October on mounting ideas of tightening world supplies. Bullish undertones sprout from projections for a lower crop from Colombia, poor quality available from Brazil and a late harvest in Central America, analysts said. Brazil is the leading world coffee producer and Colombia is No. 3 behind Vietnam.

“We do have tight supplies, but [the market] is dependent on fund buying to keep things moving,” said Sterling Smith, market analyst at Country Hedging in St. Paul, Minn.

Although there are some producer sales at recent highs, “the fund buying is overpowering the [effect of] selling,” said a Tampa-based coffee broker/analyst.

Speculative funds, which have no use for the underlying commodity, are looking at outside economic indicators, such as the U.S. dollar and economic data, for trading cues.

Fund traders will be looking at Friday’s release of November U.S. employment data, the broker/analyst said. The data is due at 8:30 a.m. EST. March futures could slide back to the $1.41 level if end-of-the-week profit taking comes into play Friday, Smith said.

“It would not surprise me to see the some money being taken off of the table ahead of the weekend,” Smith said.

Liffe March robusta coffee futures settled up $10 at $1,383 a ton.

ICE coffee warehouse stocks increased by 4,961 60-kilogram bags Thursday to total 3.183 million bags, according to exchange data.

ICE coffee open interest increased by 1,761 lots Wednesday to total 113,950 lots, according to exchange data.

Volume was estimated at 13,298 lots, according to exchange data. In options, approximately 5,376 calls and 1,503 put options traded.

By Holly Henschen, Dow Jones Newswires; 212-416-2138;
holly.henschen@dowjones.com