Space Roasters plans to become the first coffee company to roast beans in space, where the beans will float without gravity and avoid the uneven roasting associated with ground-level rotating drums. The company aims to offer space-seared beans in Dubai by 2020, with the price yet to be determined.
You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to make a good cup of coffee, but maybe it helps. A startup certainly thinks so and is moving towards being the first coffee company in history to roast beans in what could be the ideal place: space. Space Roasters is a small company with a big idea that’s been around for a while: sending coffee beans about 100 miles (161km) through space in a pressurized capsule. When the pod falls back it will provide the ideal place for the beans to be roasted perfectly, as they float without gravity and therefore do not face the problems associated with uneven roasting in ground-level rotating drums. The reentry will provide all the warmth they need. The founders have their sights set on 2020 as the date when they will offer up that first scoop of space-seared beans, first in Dubai and then elsewhere. The price for such extravagance, while not yet determined, will almost certainly skyrocket.
Raising a cup to brew coffee:
Brazil is by far the largest coffee producing country, supplying about a third of the world’s coffee beans.
The most expensive coffee, priced at around $600 USD per pound, is harvested from the feces of the Asian palm civet, which eats but cannot digest the coffee beans.
Coffee beans aren’t actually beans; they are the seeds of the cherry-like berries that grow on coffee plants.
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