Cuban Coffee Beans

Cuban coffee is known for its strong taste served in small amounts with excessive caffeine and sugar. The coffee beans are finely grounded and dark roasted. The coffee is prepared espresso style using a machine. You can get the best taste of Cuban coffee by using finely ground, almost powdered, Jamaican beans. Cuban style coffee is also widely available in both whole bean and ground espresso blends.

It is said that what tequila is to liquor cafe cubano is to the world of coffee. Actually it is true that this coffee is not sipped or savored, but is shot! Cafe cubano has twice the kick to any other coffee. It is a daily morning ritual for Cubans and Cuban-Americans. At any time of day or night at the countless little Cuban restaurants people line up for jolts of café cubano served in thimble-sized paper cups.

There are two methods for making coffee the Cuban way: the traditional method using a metal stovetop espresso pot or with an electric espresso machine. While the stovetop method takes longer, it is certainly the authentic method. Cuban coffee is served at the end of a meal in tiny cups that are really quite small.

Select coffee beans are grown high in the shady jungles of the Sierra Maestra Mountains of Eastern Cuba. The beans are roasted to perfection, vacuum sealed and shipped in small batches to ensure the freshest possible coffee beans! Produced by small-scale, worker-organized cooperative coffee farms using traditional organic coffee growing techniques, Cuban coffee beans are very delicious and full bodied. Between Cuba's natural humid climate, fertile soil and two centuries of cultivation techniques, you have an ideal setting for growing coffee beans.