Specialty Coffee: Practice of selling coffees by country of origin, roast, flavoring, or special blend, rather than by brand or trademark. The term specialty coffee also suggests the trade and culture that has grown up around this merchandising practice.

 

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Specialty Coffee: Practice of selling coffees by country of origin, roast, flavoring, or special blend, rather than by brand or trademark. The term specialty coffee also suggests the trade and culture that ha . . . View Full Definition

Specialty Coffee Association Of America (Scaa): An important and influential association of specialty coffee roasters, wholesalers, retailers, importers and growers headquartered in Long Beach, California.

Sustainable Coffee: At this writing, a contested and vaguely defined category of environmentally friendly coffees. A caucus in the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA) is attempting to evolve reliable . . . View Full Definition

Varietal Coffee: As used by many people in the American specialty coffee industry, a term describing an unblended coffee from a single country, region, and crop. For example: Ethiopia Yirgacheffe, Kenya AA, . . . View Full Definition

Estate-Grown Coffee: Coffee produced by a single farm, single mill, or single group of farms, and marketed without mixture with other coffees. Many specialty coffees are now identified by estate name, rather tha . . . View Full Definition

Single-Estate Coffee: Coffee produced by a single farm, single mill, or single group of farms, and marketed without mixture with other coffees. Many specialty coffees are now identified by estate name, rather tha . . . View Full Definition

Specialty Services: Services that are provided by independent, specialty organizations rather than by the MCO providing the basic health plan.

Specialty Tea: A blend of teas that takes its name from the area in which it is grown: a blend of teas blended for a particular person or event or a blend of teas for a particular time of the day.

Straight Coffee: Unblended coffee from a single country, region, and crop.

Specialty Health Maintenance Organization (Specialty HMO): An organization that uses an HMO model to provide healthcare services in a subset or single specialty of medical care.