Brita Water Filters ... and some great filter coffee stories made with home filtered water of course
This information was sourced from a lovely little brochure produced by Brita Water Filters
Brita Home Water Filters and Rituals ... Islands of drinking pleasure.
Filter your drinking water at home and at work and really enjoy your tea or coffee break ... this is the Brita water filter message to lovers of coffee and tea and of course other water based (aren't they all?) drinks.
The best part of working is taking breaks. Because every break gives you back the energy you need to carry on working. Breaks are the little bright spots in the grey expanses of your daily routines, important moments for relaxing and feeling good. People who plan such islands of time into their day are in control of the brighter side of life. And such people know how to celebrate and fully enjoy these free moments.
All over the world, taking a break from work is associated with drinking coffee and tea. In the USA the official coffee break has long become a popular tradition. And where would the English be without their beloved teatime?
Aroma improved with use of Brita home water filters
Just follow your nose. What is it that arouses your senses before you even open your eyes in the morning? The delicious smell of fresh coffee brewing one of the most pleasant alarm clocks in the world. And all that aroma comes from a little brown bean that, in its natural raw state, doesnt have any scent at all. Because the aroma of coffee doesnt develop until the beans are roasted: slowly and carefully the beans are heated to temperatures of 180C and 250C, and roasted for 15-20 minutes.
During this time, the colour and size of the beans change and the coffee oils, which are responsible for the aroma, are secreted. These oils are water soluble and dissolve in the hot water when coffee is brewed. By the way: Successful roasting of coffee beans is characterised by the singing of the beans. Now if the water is contaminated with chlorine then the aroma and flavour are spoiled. Home water filters therefore improve your coffee .... so make you coffee beans sing even better with a Brita home water filter
Don't ruin the subtle and finer aroma of tea by not using a Brita water filter at home ....
The aroma of black tea is finer and somewhat more reserved than that form filter coffee. Although tea connoisseurs can get lost in its diversity. Here too, the aroma doesnt develop until later on, during fermentation.
When fresh tea leaves are rolled, the juice is pressed out of them, which then oxidises in the air and ferments. During this process, tea leaves alter their colour and taste.
By the way: Green tea is not fermented, and therefore has a slightly more bitter taste. With semi-fermented teas, such as for example, Oolong, the fermenting process is interrupted at the halfway point. That is what lends this tea speciality its famous peach aroma.
Water and home filters ....
Tap water, transformed with BRITA home water filters, aroma and flavour can better develop in filtered water. BRITA water filter can be highly recommended. Because the original BRITA filter cartridge removes the scale from hard water, considerably improving the appearance and aroma of tea.
Coffee break and filter water (are should we say filter coffee) ... 60 beans for Beethoven
For the brilliant composer Beethoven, his coffee was sacrosanct: exactly 60 beans in each cup, no more and no less. Quite understandable that he would never have left the preparation of his coffee to any servant even though he did not have a Brita water filter either.
King Ludwig XV of France even took things one step further. He grew his own coffee plants in the greenhouses of Versailles. Then he personally roasted the beans and prepared an aromatic brew, which he served to himself and Madame Dubarry in one of several golden coffee pots. Royal honours for a drink that actually had democratic roots. Because the coffee houses in Europe were the first places where the poor and the rich, men and women, could meet freely and mingle something theyre still doing today.
By the way: The best coffee connoisseurs of the world are not the Italians or the French, but rather Germans. And in tea country Japan, a good cup of coffee can easily cost up to 85 DM (43.45 euros) if that coffee is the extremely rare Blue Mountain variety from Jamaica.
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