Specialty Coffee Beans, Roasted in the Algarve

Coffee seems pretty straightforward. You grind some beans, add water, and hopefully end up with something delicious. But coffee is actually a surprisingly strange little thing. It grows as a fruit, gets called a bean even though it isn't one, changes dramatically when roasted, and somehow manages to produce flavours that remind us of everything from chocolate to strawberries. Here are ten things about coffee that might make you look at your next cup a little differently. 1. C