Coffee blending matter of experience — San Antonio Light, 26 Aug 1923
Educational blurb on the San Antonio Light 26 August 1923 H and H page 63 feature—coffee botany, grades, and why Santos is meaningless without the roaster’s experience. Same hosted page image as other 1923-08-26 page 63 Light crops.
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Coffee Blending Matter of Experience.
The coffee plant is an evergreen tree growing to a height of from 15 to 40 feet, but the tree in cultivation, however, is not allowed to grow over a height of from 10 to 14 feet.
This pruning keeps the coffee tree in a healthy condition and insures a maximum yield. There are about 85 known varieties of coffee plants and each one of these different varieties grow many different grades of coffee so you see the difficulty the experienced coffee roaster would have in keeping up the grade of the many certain varieties that he is handling.
The word “Santos,” for instance, means nothing unless you are experienced enough to know the original qualities of a good Santos and are able to select it from among the many different grades of Santos coffee grown.
Source
- Newspaper: San Antonio Light (San Antonio, Texas) — 26 August 1923 — page 63
- Same hosted page image as other 1923-08-26 San Antonio Light page 63 crops — Newspapers.com (accessed 27 April 2026)
- Local PDF: 1923-08-26-san-antonio-light-coffee-blending-matter-of-experience.pdf
