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Coffee Facts
Germany is the world’s second largest consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person.
Over 53 countries grow coffee worldwide, but all of them lie along the equator between the tropic of Cancer and Capricorn.
An acre of coffee trees can produce up to 10,000 pounds of coffee cherries. That amounts to [...]
Did you know…
27% of U.S. coffee drinkers and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener to their coffee.
The world’s largest coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees. Colombia comes in second with around two thirds of Brazil’s production.
Hard bean means the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5000 feet.
Arabica and Robusta [...]
Studies indicate coffee reduces the risk for diabetes and Parkinson’s
Some studies have shown that coffee may reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes. After analyzing data on 120,000 people over an 18-year period (1), researchers at Harvard have concluded that drinking 1 to 3 cups of caffeinated coffee each day [...]
Alamid Coffee
Coffee What?
The civet (aka alamid, bearcat or musang) eats ripe coffee cherries, but can’t digest the beans, so they pass it out. People scour the forest floor in search of this (undigested coffee beans or alamid shit, for short), clean it, dry it, roast it, and sell it for an arm and a leg. [...]
Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee-an Introduction.
Widely considered to be one of the worlds best, if not the best, coffees, Jamaican Blue Mountain is a rich, smooth roast. This aromatic and flavorful coffee has to be experienced to be believed.
The Beginning of Jamaica’s Coffee Trade
The history of Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee is just as rich and interesting [...]
Why is fresh coffee so confusing?
This is one problem this industry really needs to get in gear on. We have this muddled idea of fresh ending at fresh roasted. Even the most transparent and progressive roasters are a bit vague on how far coffees are from harvest and that presents a crossroads for our industry.
When [...]
The English word coffee first came to be used in the early- to mid-1600s, but early forms of the word date to the last decade of the 1500s. It comes from the Italian caffè. The term was introduced to Europe via the Ottoman Turkish kahveh which is in turn derived from the Arabic: qahweh.The origin [...]
