Whois & Analysis for lacolombe.com

La Colombe Coffee Roasters (originally La Colombe Torrefaction) is a US coffee roaster and retailer headquartered in Philadelphia.

The company currently has cafés in Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Boston, and Chicago.

La Colombe is representative of roasters that originated in the third wave of coffee, and was one of the early pioneers of direct trade coffee sourcing.

A latte (or) is a coffee drink made with espresso and steamed milk.

The term as used in English is a shortened form of the Italian caffè latte, caffelatte or caffellatte, which means "milk coffee".

The word is also sometimes spelled latté or lattè in English with different kinds of accent marks, which can be a hyperforeignism or a deliberate attempt to indicate that the word is not pronounced according to the rules of English orthography.

"Specialty coffee" was first used in 1974 by Erna Knutsen in an issue of Tea & Coffee Trade Journal.

Knutsen used this term to describe beans of the best flavor which are produced in special microclimates.

Roasting coffee transforms the chemical and physical properties of green coffee beans into roasted coffee products.

The roasting process is what produces the characteristic flavor of coffee by causing the green coffee beans to change in taste.

Unroasted beans contain similar if not higher levels of acids, protein, sugars, and caffeine as those that have been roasted, but lack the taste of roasted coffee beans due to the Maillard and other chemical reactions that occur during roasting.