I met all my friends at our local overpriced coffee shop to
discuss how to solve all the world's problems. After
getting nowhere, we decided to research all we knew about
gourmet coffee. Luckily with our mocha latte we got
wireless internet access. Three cups later we came up with
these Interesting gourmet coffee facts:
* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house - the
Green Dragon Coffee House
* One Coffee Tree or plant in its normal harvest will
produce enough coffee cherries to make one pound of coffee
bean
* 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 trees can produce crops for 20 to 30
years under proper conditions and care.
* Most coffee is transported by ships. Currently there are
approximately 2,200 ships involved in transporting the
beans each year.
* In Turkey a husband who refused to provide his wife with
the drink could be divorced by her!
* Germany is the world's second largest consumer of coffee
in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person. Second to the
United States at 19 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 approximately 2,000
pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
* The percolator was invented in 1827 by a French man. It
would boil the coffee producing a bitter tasting brew.
Today most people use the drip or filtered method to brew
their coffee.
* With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee
is grown in the United States or its territories.
* Up until the 1870's most coffee was roasted at home in a
frying pan over a charcoal fire. It wasn't until recent
times that batch roasting became popular.
* Each year some 7 million tons of green beans are produced
world wide. Most of which is hand picked.
* The popular trend towards flavored coffees originated in
the United States during the 1970's.
* October 1st is the official Coffee Day in Japan.
* The first coffee tree in the Western Hemisphere was
brought from France to the Island of Martinique in the
1720's
* China drinks 70 times as much tea as coffee
* Coffee trees are not grown anywhere in the continental US
but can be found in Hawaii. Due to the high costs of land
the coffee is sold at quite the premium falsely convincing
people it is a premium grade coffee
* Coffee beans can be eaten raw or raw in chocolate -
deliverying twice the punch and caffeine as brewed coffee
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George Moore founded Mission Grounds Gourmet Coffee,
http://www.missiongrounds.com , its is a non profit
organization, a 501 C Corporation, dedicated to helping
children. Our main focus is to help orphans and children in
need the most: impoverished children in third world
countries and homeless children in inner city neighborhoods
in the United States
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