Several techniques are used for obtaining this kind of coffee. The process is typically carried out on unroasted (green) beans, and begins with steaming of the beans. They are then washed with a solvent that contains as much of the chemical composition of coffee as possible without also containing the caffeine in a soluble manner. The process is replicated anywhere from 8 to 12 times until it meets either the international norm of having removed 97% of the caffeine in the beans or the EU standard of having the beans 99.9% caffeine free by mass. Coffee contains over 400 chemicals important to the taste and aroma of the final drink; this makes it challenging to get rid of only caffeine while leaving the other chemicals at their original concentrations.
Not all coffee is created the same. Nor is it all really fresh. It's the shocking secret that the big coffee co's don't want you to know; that they must supply cheap beans from mass farming and deforestation as their markets are basically too huge and their profit needs too grand. Comparatively we're no larger than an ant, so we can source our coffee from selected coffee plantations that carry an very limited, but very high grade coffee as they both esteem the environment (shade grown) and their workers (fair pay).
Decaf is no longer an unclean remark in the coffee world. Well... not at least for our gastronome beans. We pay the extra cash to make sure our decaf coffees are taken care of gently, leaving a greater part of the bean flavoring compounds safe and sound. You've got choices here. You can go with our customary high grade coffee decafs (labeled simply as Decaf) that have been especially doctored with a water-steam pressure to strip away chemical solvent or our 100% chemical free processed decafs (labeled as Swiss Water or Organic). All of our decaffeinated coffee is treated to be 99.7% caffeine free.
Decaffeinated coffee is about 97 percent caffeine-free, with an average of 2-3 mg. of caffeine, but there are more than a few factors that can to some extent alter the caffeine level of your cup of decaf coffee. Higher extraction rates, warmer water, a better-quality grind, and a lighter roast all result in a higher caffeine level in decaf coffee. This could potentially add to the caffeine level from something like 2 mg to 6 mg per cup.
Even should these factors amplify the quantity of caffeine, your decaf coffee will still have far less than the caffeine per cup in standard coffee. It will even have less caffeine than various 1-ounce servings of chocolate.
