Decaf Coffee Beans Worth Drinking: How Specialty Decaf Has Raised the Bar
The idea that decaf coffee beans are inherently inferior to their caffeinated counterparts belongs to an older era of coffee — one defined by industrial processing methods that stripped as much flavour as they removed caffeine. That era is over for anyone paying attention to the specialty coffee movement. Today, properly sourced and carefully decaffeinated coffee beans can express the full origin character of the growing region: the floral notes of Ethiopian highland varieties, the chocolate depth of Dominican Republic single origins, and the fruit-forward brightness that separates specialty-grade green coffee from commodity crops. Paddle & Brew has built their decaffeinated range around this understanding, applying the same sourcing rigour and roasting precision to their decaf coffee beans as they do to every other offering in their catalog. What Separates Good Decaf Beans from Bad Ones Not all decaf coffee beans are created equal, and the gap between a good and a bad examp...