Coffee expert Katrien Pauwels leads you through the global coffee landscape. Both coffee makers and seasoned coffee lovers and professionals will find their taste in this book that explains the work that precedes our daily cup of coffee. From growing different types of beans and the influence of roasting on the taste, to choosing the coffee that suits you best and the right way to make coffee. With an insight into doing business in the coffee world including business plans and testimonies of the best coffee roasters in the world. Finally, this complete book closes with the booming business of alternatives to milk, coffee travel and reference bars all over the world. A musthave.
Together with her partner Tom Janssen, Katrien Pauwels is the owner of OR Coffee Roasters, a Belgian coffee roasting company that manages the entire coffee cycle in house and buys 75% of her coffee beans directly from the farmer on the plantation. She is also active as an international jury member at the World Championships Barista and Brewers Cup. She has a company that distributes Specialty Coffee in Europe.