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Coffee Facts Every Coffee Enthusiast Should Know

September 25, 2012 by admin

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There comes a time when every coffee drinker needs to learn the essential facts that gloriously make coffee what it is today. These are those facts. Learn them and learn them well.

  • Coffee is the second most traded commodity in the entire world – 60 billion dollars every year! The largest? Petroleum.

  • Dorothy Jones, a Boston native, became the first American coffee trader after being issued her license to sell coffee in 1670.
  • The Boston Tea Party of 1173 was planned in a coffee house named “The Green Dragon”.

  • The coffee percolator was invented by James Mason in 1865. This did 2 important things: Laid the foundation for coffee makers we know and love today, and made coffee more readily accessible to the middle class.

  • Specialty coffee houses began showing up in the 1970’s. The most famous of them all? Starbucks, established in Seattle in 1971 as a seller of freshly roasted beans and coffee equipment.

  • The first instant coffee was invented in 1901 by a Japanese-American chemist, Satori Kato, in Chicago.
  • Coffee is the most popular drink in America, aside from water.

  • Coffee was originally eaten. African tribes mixed the coffee berries with fat and ate them.
  • Hawaii is the only state in the United States that grows coffee.

  • The King of England banned coffee houses in 1675. His reasoning? Coffee houses were where people met to conspire against him.
  • Ethiopia is most likely the birth place of coffee.

  • There are over 200,000 espresso bars in Italy today.
  • The coffee filter was invented by a housewife in 1908, Melitta Bentz.
  • Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer today.

  • Cappuccino is named after the Capuchin monks  due to the similarity in color between the drink and the monk’s robes.
  • If you ask for a latte in Italy, you’ll most likely get a glass of warm milk instead of coffee.
  • Japan celebrates a national Coffee Day on October 1st.

  • If you’re an expert at preparing Turkish Coffee, you are referred to as a kahveci.
  • A coffee tree’s life span is between 60 and 70 years.
  • Espresso surprisingly has 1/3 less caffeine content than a cup of regularly brewed coffee.

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