CAFE ALCHEMY
Café Alchemy is giving our community a unique cultural and educational coffee experience.
At Café Alchemy every detail is created with intention and purpose. The name itself has a deeper meaning. Café, coffee in Spanish, and Alchemy, by definition- is a form of chemistry in the Middle Ages aiming to convert ordinary metals into gold.
How does Alchemy relate to coffee?
When “pulling a shot”, coffee lingo for making an espresso shot, the shot is broken down into 3 parts:
1. top layer- the crema (the gold)
2. middle layer- the body
3. bottom layer- the heart
The crema is a beautiful gold-cream color, and in essence here at Cafe Alchemy we are making “gold.”
LIZ FRAIRE
Liz Fraire is the proud Founder and Owner of Café Alchemy, an equitable coffee company rooted in culture. Liz is a first-generation Mexican-American from Fresno, CA. In 2014, while deployed to the Middle East, she experienced her first real cappuccino and latte. That moment sparked a frenzy of learning about coffee. She attended brewing classes in Northern California and working on attending coffee courses in Mexico. Her passion for coffee and curiosity for her culture has led to creating Café Alchemy. She cares about the integrity and quality of the entire process and establishing meaningful relationships with those who participate in it.
She is currently launching presales for her first online coffee bag called Las Adelitas (women soldiers) in honor of Women’s Month. She discovered Las Adelitas when researching the story behind café de olla, one of Café Alchemy’s signature drinks. The Adelitas were formidable women who participated in the Revolution Mexican War and prepared this delicious drink for their male counterparts. Liz is excited to bring awareness about coffee and her culture through Café Alchemy.
Have you ever wondered where
and how coffee is harvested?
Well to start off, coffee is a fruit, a berry grown on trees in regions near the equator. Brazil is the leading country for coffee production. Our southern neighbor, Mexico is 6th in coffee production. Fincas de cafe (coffee farms) meticulously grow coffee beans.
“The leading coffee producer in 2018 was Brazil, with over 61 million 60-kilogram bags, followed by Colombia with 14.2 million.”
“Spanning continents and cultures, an average of 2.25 billion cups are consumed every day.”
“Mexico is one of the top 10 coffee-producing countries in the world and, according to the SCA, it has over 500,000 smallholder farming families. Most of the country's coffee is grown in the south, close to Central America, with Veracruz, Chiapas, and Oaxaca being some of the most well-known producing regions.”