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Some great info gourmet coffee:
* The Boston Tea Party was organized in a cafe – Green Dragon Coffee House
* A coffee tree or a plant in its normal harvest coffee cherries produce enough to make a pound of coffee beans
* 27% of coffee drinkers in the United States and 43% of German drinkers add a sweetener in their coffee.
* The World coffee producer is Brazil with over 3,970 million coffee trees. Colombia produces a large number of gourmet coffee for its size – second in the world with about two-thirds of Brazilian production gourmet coffee.
* Hard Bean: the coffee was grown at an altitude above 5,000 feet.
* Arabica and Robusta trees can produce Crop 20-30 years in conditions and appropriate 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 a mocha latte could be repudiated its!
Besides Germany United States is the world's second largest consumer of coffee in terms of volume at 16 pounds per person. Second States in the Kingdom to 19 pounds per person.
* More than 53 countries around the world grow coffee, 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. This corresponds to approximately 2000 pounds of beans after hulling or milling.
* The percolator was invented in 1827 by a French. It would boil the coffee Gourmet producing a bitter brew – a bit like Starbucks today. Today, most people use the drip method or filtered to brew their coffee.
* With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.
Cowboys used to roast over an open fire. It was not until the '70s that batch roasting became popular.
* Each year some 7 million tons of beans are produced worldwide. Most of what is hand picked.
* The trend toward popular cafes flavored originating in the United States during the 1970s.
* October 1 is the official Day Gourmet Coffee in Japan.
* The coffee first time in the Western Hemisphere was brought from France to the island of Martinique in the 1720s
* Beverages China 70 times as much tea as coffee
* The coffee is not grown anywhere in the continental United States but is Hawaii. Because of the high cost of land, the coffee is sold at any prime falsely convince people that this is a premium quality coffee
* Coffee beans can be eaten raw or uncooked chocolate – deliverying twice the punch and caffeine than coffee infused
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