Swiss Water Decaf: What is Swiss Water Process Decaffeination?

For almost any coffee lover, there is a certain point, usually later in the day where you face the inevitable question: regular coffee or decaffeinated coffee? As much as the caffeine can have you losing sleep, so can the lack of options when buying decaffeinated coffee. Today, we at Black Ink Coffee are going to tell you about the coffee industry solution for this dilemma, Swiss Water Decaf.

If you're looking to get your coffee decaffeinated, and with the same incredible flavor profiles from the special brand of certified organic, or rare imported beans that you love, its time you learn about the Swiss water process. Grab yourself a cup, and lets get right into what this method is, how it differs from other decaffeination processes, and why this is truly the best way for removing caffeine while preserving the taste you love.

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What is Swiss Water Decaf?

We at Black Ink Coffee are puritans when it comes to our coffee. That's why, if you're watching how much caffeine you are consuming, we firmly stand by this form of decaf coffees.

Swiss Water decaffeinated coffee is made through an environmentally friendly, chemical free method to decaffeinate coffee that uses only water to remove caffeine.

As people around the world have come to demand a more green way to extract caffeine content from coffee, and without all the chemical solvents, this decaffeination process has grown more into commercial use.

Swiss Water Decaffeination Demystified

Now we know what you're thinking. Coffee decaffeinated is like a cake without sugar. But, we're here to expose this coffee industry myth once and for all.

Swiss Water process is unique insofar as it makes a great cup of decaf coffee, with all the same great flavor and traits of your go to roast, all chemical free, no ethyl acetate needed.

Yes, this means you can finally enjoy a decaf coffee with your dessert without needing pounds of sugar to cover up that hideous chemical aftertaste. Finally, you can sleep easy knowing your coffee is free of chemicals, and not harming your body and the rest of the world with toxic solvents.

How Does it Work?

Unlike other ways of getting caffeine removed from a coffee bean, Swiss Water decaffeinated coffee does not use a hard to pronounce chemical solvent like ethyl acetate, or methylene chloride. In fact, it gets the name Swiss water, because essentially all that is used to remove caffeine from your fresh green coffee beans is water from the mountains of British Columbia.

In order for this to work, green coffee beans are soaked in water, which remove caffeine, as well as other water soluble components of the green bean. Then, this water is passed through activated charcoal carbon filters.

This part of the water process creates a green coffee extract, stripping out all the caffeine while maintaining the other components of the coffee bean that give it its flavor.

This Green coffee extract is then used to soak the original green beans, to create a batch of caffeine free coffee beans with all the same original great taste.

Is Swiss Water Process Better?

Today, its important for people to enjoy their coffee without the food and drug administration approving chemicals with names like supercritical carbon dioxide. Decaf coffee has been around for many centuries, but that doesn't mean a decaffeination facility should be stuck in time.

Generally, the chemical solvents used in other decaffeination processes don't only remove the caffeine, but also some of the great benefits from green coffee beans. As we have mentioned already, the flavor from Swiss water process is greatly protected because of the green coffee extract that gets red absorbed into the beans. But, on top of the flavor, the Swiss water process also integrates many of the health benefits that can be lost in methods using ethyl acetate or methylene chloride.

Because it is only water and carbon in the Swiss process, the amazing benefits of the original coffee plants are maintained. This means, the tremendous antioxidants and other important natural oils of the green coffee extract liquid are still in tact for your consumption.

This is important to remember, because when a coffee is roasted, every little tiny property of the green coffee bean including the soil and temperature of the climate its grown in are essential to the final result you get in your cup.

So, even if the food and drug administration can approve other methods for decaf coffee (as well as tea leaves) that use a solvent like methylene chloride, it doesn't mean the process is really all that great. Along with removing caffeine, this can remove the true integrity of the coffee, as well as its beneficial properties.

So, anytime you see a Swiss water logo, you can be sure that not only is your coffee 99.9 caffeine free, and certified organic, but it is also likely to have all the flavor components of your favorite green beans, without the chemicals, and other negative effects of any other decaffeination process.

Decaf, Please.

Finally you can get yourself a night cap coffee without the caffeine rush, thanks to the Swiss water process. We at Black Ink Coffee firmly believe coffee is something that should be enjoyed all year round, and at all hours of the day. But, onto of this, its about quality, and not just quantity. While cheap decaf brands have existed for time immemorial, even just the word decaf conjures up the unpleasant flavor of ethyl acetate and other solvents.

Swiss Water process is probably the only way you can get around this issue, enjoying a coffee that is not only decaf, but also chemical free, and still delicious as you could hope for. Today, the coffee industry is really making strides to help coffee lovers get our fix, without any of the harmful repercussions that have historically been implemented by manufacturers.

Alas, decaf coffee does not need to cause you to run for the hills. Indeed, the Swiss water process may have you coming for another round of decaffeinated coffee before you know it.

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