Lazzarin coffee comes from the company of the same name, Lazzarin Cafe srl, from the small town of Treviso, in the province of Susegana, not far from Venice.
The whole story began with Armando Lazzarin’s long-term work in South America, where his love for the black magic drink was born. Armando Lazzarin decided to pass on his knowledge of coffee to his daughter Renza Lazzarin, and establish a family business in his hometown. In 1988, a coffee roasting plant was opened.
In about twenty years, the company has made rapid progress in terms of the production and distribution of Lazzarin coffee, and is now represented in Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Albania, Turkey, Bulgaria and Macedonia.
The coffee production itself is done with high-quality automatic roasting machines. The coffee is roasted exclusively with hot air, which ensures a higher quality final product – coffee.
The raw materials of green coffee, Arabica, come from plantations in Brazil (Santos), Peru (Chanchamayo), Guatemala (Antygua type) and Ethiopia (Djimmah).
The raw materials for green coffee, Robusta, come from plantations in Vietnam (Vietnam grade 0), Cameroon (Cameroun grade 1 superior) and India (Kappy Royal).
We are talking about one of the most complex drinks on earth. Just one grain has an incredible political, social and economic impact on the human race.
From the hills of distant plantations to our coffee shops and homes, 2 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day around the world. More than 25 million people are involved in the process from planting the coffee plant to the cup.
There are many legends associated with coffee. However, the most famous is the legend of a shepherd named Kalid who lived on the Ethiopian plateau. Namely, the shepherd Kalid, from the Galla tribe, around 850 AD, while tending his flock, noticed that the sheep became exceptionally lively after nibbling on some berries. The shepherd decided to try the coffee berries himself, and discovered that he felt much better, that he was full of energy.
Kalid decided to share his unusual discovery with the abbot of the local monastery. The abbot made a drink with berries and hot water and discovered that it kept him awake during the long hours of evening prayers. Soon, the discovery of the strange drink began to spread among other monks.
And so coffee began a journey that spread throughout the world.
Today, coffee is grown in many countries around the world from Asia, Africa, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Coffee production consists of:
Harvesting is considered to be the most demanding procedure in the coffee production process. Two harvesting methods are used, manual and stripping methods.
Manual or so-called picking method, in which only fruits that have reached the required maturity are manually picked. The procedure is repeated periodically due to different ripening times, but it ensures the highest quality grain, therefore manual harvesting is the most expensive and also the best picking method.
The stripping method is another way of harvesting coffee, which involves peeling all the fruits from the branch, regardless of their ripeness, and then separating the unripe fruits. This method of harvesting can also be done mechanically, which is increasingly used today.
Grain processing consists of separating the seeds from the pulp. Two processes are used to separate the pulp from the grain – dry and wet.
The dry process, known as the “unwashed” or “natural” method, is the oldest and largest traditional process for processing coffee beans. It is used in areas that do not have enough water and have enough sun (most often for Robusta species).
Ripe coffee fruits are placed in a thin layer on the substrate to dry, and are occasionally turned over to prevent moisture retention in the inner part and thus enable even drying.
This process produces natural raw coffee.
Wet processing is a better processing method because it causes less damage to the grain than dry processing.
It is used in areas that do not have enough sun, but have high humidity or a long rainy season (most often for Arabica species). After picking, ripe coffee fruits are immersed and soaked in pools of water, softening the pulp. The fermentation process begins in the water, which is necessary for the taste and aroma of coffee.
After that, sorting is done to remove lower quality grains. Then follows the process of drying the grains naturally in the sun or in dryers with hot air.
This process produces washed coffee.
Before being exported, the coffee beans will be further sorted by size and weight. Grains that are irregular in color, size, or otherwise unacceptable are removed. The raw coffee thus obtained is transported to the factories in jute bags.
Lazzarin coffee roasting is done with high-quality automatic roasting machines, and the coffee is roasted exclusively with hot air, which avoids the possibility of disproportionate and uneven roasting.
Roasting lasts on average between 12 and 15 minutes at a temperature of 120 -240 C, developing over 800 substances that characterize the aroma of coffee.
Raw coffee beans are transformed into light, fragrant, brown roasted coffee beans when exposed to hot air.
Lazzarin coffee is roasted in three ways:
After roasting, the coffee is cooled with air and passes through a separator that removes any remaining impurities. The coffee is then ground, packaged and vacuum-packed into 250g bags and cans, the beans are packaged in 1kg bags with a carbon dioxide control system, i.e. non-return valve and in 3 kg cans.
Coffee blends can be created by determining the components and their percentages once and for all, this is called fixed components formula.
There is another way to create mixtures, the so-called variable component formula – the best components on the market are selected and their relationship is modeled depending on their characteristics.
Packaging and storage of coffee is also a very important segment in production.
Warehouses or premises must meet high storage standards.
Coffee that is not sufficiently protected from moisture and air loses its aroma and undergoes chemical changes, and the beverage obtained by brewing becomes tasteless and aromaless.
Quality packaging is used primarily to preserve the good aroma of coffee.
We are distributors of the Italian espresso coffee brand Lazzarin, which has been with us since the very beginning.