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Online coffee shop with delivery: start your day with a cup of coffee from Torrefacto
Welcome to the Torrefacto website! We offer 53 varieties of grain and freshly ground coffee for home, office, restaurant, hotel or cafe with delivery in Moscow, Russia and the CIS countries. Our work is services for roasting and grinding freshly roasted coffee, which can be ordered through the online store.
Our catalog includes popular coffees such as Italian espresso blends and classic Brazilian chocolate-nut varieties, as well as rare Arabica varieties such as Indonesia Sumatra, five years old. For each variety, we draw up a detailed description of the taste, indicating the saturation, intensity, character of bitterness and sourness, and also recommend suitable cooking methods.
We roast our coffee every Saturday, so the freshest coffee is always available at Torrefacto. For each variety, we select an individual roasting profile and take into account all the features of the grain in order to fully reveal its taste and aroma.
Green grain comes to us from a reliable and trusted supplier. We control the quality of coffee at all stages of assessment, purchase, transportation, subsequent storage and ensure that our coffee meets the highest industry standards. We pack green grain in 300 and 900 g, and fried - in 150 and 450 g, the catalog contains the cost of each type of packaging.
Do you need to buy expensive coffee as a present for the New Year or another holiday? In the "Accessories" section you will find a beautiful gift box - it can hold four packages of 150 g at once.
How to order coffee with home delivery over the Internet?
To place an order, put the desired coffee in the basket or send a request by mail. Specialists of the online store will tell you about the features of various coffee varieties and will offer you an option that is ideal for you in terms of price, strength, taste and a number of other characteristics.
We guarantee:
- fast coffee dispatch - on the next Monday after roasting;
- high-quality packaging;
- convenient payment methods;
- purchase without risk - if the quality of the purchased coffee does not suit you, you can exchange it for free or return the full cost of the order within 30 days.
Do you have any questions? Call us and we will tell you how to buy coffee on the site, and we will send a price list to wholesale customers.
In this article, we would like to outline the general principles of naming coffee varieties. We would like to note: the type of coffee is, for example, Jamaica Blue Mountain; Arabica or Robusta is a type of coffee.
The main criterion for the diversification of coffee varieties is the geography of their growth. That is, the first item in the name of any type of coffee is the country of origin: Uganda Robusta, Costa Rica Tarrazu, Yemen Matari. There are exceptions: Monsoon Malabar, for example, which is known to be harvested in India, or Kopi Luwak, which is known to be harvested in Indonesia (although recently this is not the only thing - see our article "The most expensive coffee in the world"). This practice can be called the inclusion of a unique identifier in the name of the coffee variety. Another example is Brazil Bourbon, where the coffee variety is the unique identifier.
So, so far we have built such a scheme for naming a coffee variety: country of origin + unique identifier. We would like to note right away that the obligatory item in the name of the coffee variety is, in fact, only the country of origin. All other items are optional, but not required.
Not so long ago, the trend of additional geographical denomination of the coffee variety began to gain momentum, that is, the allocation of additional regions within the country: Costa Rica Tarrazu (not Tres Rios), Ethiopia Irga Cheffe (not Sidamo), Yemen Matari (not Sanani).In this case, the name of the farm can serve as a unique identifier: for example, Costa Rica Tarrazu La Pastora.
Further in the name of the coffee variety follows technical information: growing height, processing method and grain size. For the meaning of this information, see our Berry to Cup article. This information is coded differently depending on the country of origin of a particular coffee variety: Colombia Supremo, Guatemala SHB, Kenya AA. Let's consider these designations.
The height of the coffee variety is indicated by the following designations: HB / SHB and HG / SHG, adopted in Central America. HB (Hard Bean) and SHB (Strictly Hard Bean) are used in Costa Rica and Guatemala, while the terms HG (High Grown) and SHG (Strictly High Grown) are used for Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Mexico.
HB and HG mean the height of growth from 1200 to 1400 m, and SHB and SHG - from 1400 m.
Why is the height of the coffee variety important?
... but the 18th screen is much larger.
The higher the coffee grows, the less oxygen is in the atmosphere, respectively, the slower the maturation process - as a result, the grain becomes the most dense. Have you ever seen little gnarled cows living in the mountains at an altitude of three kilometers? The coffee trees are the same. The densest beans maximize the sourness, which is responsible for the taste characteristics of coffee, and therefore coffee that grows higher is valued more (hence the term "highland").
The grain size of the coffee variety is indicated by the following designations: for Colombian coffee varieties - Supremo and Excelso, for African coffee varieties, except Ethiopia (Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Malawi) - AA, A, AB, B, C. In relation to size coffee beans I would like to comment on two points. First, the size of the coffee bean is called a screen (from the English screen - screen, sieve). A screen is a sieve with holes of a certain diameter through which coffee beans are sieved to sort by size.
Of the designations we have mentioned for specific varieties of coffee, Supremo is screen 17-20, Excelso is screen 15-16; AA - screen 18.5-20, A - screen 17-18, B - 15-16, C - 14.
| Screen | Mm |
| 20 | 8 |
| 19 | 7.5 |
| 18 | 7 |
| 17 | 6.75 |
| 16 | 6.5 |
| 15 | 6 |
| 14 | 5.5 |
| 12 | 5 |
Second, the effect of bean size on coffee flavor is not as obvious as the effect of height. If the variety is usually ranked by size (for example, Uganda Robusta, Monsoon Malabar, Brazil Santos, Kenya), then often, but not always, a larger size gives the best taste: Santos 19 tastes better than Santos 17, Kenya AA - Kenya C, but, for example, Uganda Robusta 17 is often better than Uganda Robusta 18, which is rather the exception to the rule. But! If a sort of coffee is not customary to sort by size, this does not mean that it is worse or cheaper! For example, Yemen or New Caledonia, which is at the same price as Jamaica Blue Mountain - the grains of these varieties are small, while the taste characteristics of the cup are absolutely amazing. Takeaway: Size doesn't always matter in the coffee world!
Also, the grain size is indicated by the grade parameter (grade) for coffee varieties from Vietnam, Peru, for Jamaica Blue Mountain. For coffee varieties from Ethiopia, the grade indicates the processing method: 1 and 2 are washed processing, 3-5 are natural.
So, the name of the coffee variety is built according to the following template: country of origin + additional geography + unique identifier + technical information. The use of all the terminology of the name of a coffee variety is appropriate in the professional community, but for the end consumer, we consider these terms to be cumbersome. Therefore, our coffee is called simply: Yemen, Costa Rica, Uganda Robusta. However, any coffee connoisseur will find its full name on the page of the coffee variety in the online store.
You can read about such an important taste characteristic of each variety as sourness in our article "Sour Coffee", and the specificity of roasting is disclosed in the article "Coffee Roasting".
Posted on 04/06/2013
Posted by: Lara13
Recently, you can see different varieties of coffee on store shelves. They differ in the way they are roasted, as well as in their taste and aroma.But among so many coffee, one cannot fail to notice one variety that stands out for its dark lacquered coffee beans against the background of others. And moreover, these different types of coffee beans can be found in one package.
Of course, those who are not versed in coffee will immediately think of some kind of trick. But this is not the case. A pack of torrefacto coffee is in the hands of an inexperienced coffee drinker.
Torrefacto is a roasting of coffee beans with the addition of granulated sugar. As a result of such roasting, the grains are caramelized and they acquire a glossy appearance. This coffee is considered unusual. When roasting coffee beans in this way, the taste and aroma of the product is significantly improved.
For the first time, the method of roasting torrefacto beans was tried in Spain more than 70 years ago. Nowadays, there are coffee drink lovers who prefer coffee with this roast. After examining such coffee, scientists came to the conclusion that beans fried with sugar contain several times more antioxidants than other types of coffee. In addition, Torrefacto coffee has been recognized by physicians from Spain as the best source of antioxidants. They protect our body well from free radicals. And because of them, as you know, the body ages prematurely.
Since torrefacto is a strong coffee, it is added to coffee beans that are roasted in the usual way to improve the taste. These coffee blends are called Mezcla. To prepare one cup of strong coffee, take about 5 grams of unusual torrefacto coffee.
This coffee has become popular in Russia as well. It is represented by the Oquendo brand (Spain). This brand is very well known in Spain. And any Spaniard who loves coffee will definitely choose this brand, as it has many advantages. First of all, when preparing Espresso, you can significantly save coffee, while its taste and aroma does not change. In addition, this drink is loved for its amazing properties, which have a positive effect on the human body. And the most important thing is that it is a very tasty, aromatic and unique drink! Anyone who tries it will agree with this.
The Oquendo brand has not forgotten about those for whom caffeine is contraindicated. For these coffee lovers, Oquendo provides caffeine-free coffee.
As you know, packaging also plays an important role in the choice of coffee. No matter how elite coffee is, but if the packaging is bad, it will definitely ruin it. In addition, the ingress of oxygen into the coffee beans degrades its condition and quality. Therefore, Oquendo minimizes contact with the air of the resulting product. Roasted coffee is packed in a package with a valve. The very material from which the packaging is made meets modern standards and requirements.
03/26/2015 / 15:12 Evgeniya
I usually buy coffee by weight, I was also at first confused by the shine of these beans. But the seller explained everything to me and recommended to try. I really liked the taste of Torrefacto coffee)
