- 11 billion pounds of coffee change hands every year in commodity markets.
The gourmet segment has increased 500% in the last 10 years.
- 60% of all specialty coffee purchases are by women.
- 50% of North American adults consume coffee daily.
- A Barista is a master of making espresso beverages.
- Lattes are the most popular espresso beverages.
- Latte means milk in Italian. If you order a latte in Italy you will
receive a glass of milk.
- It takes 2000 coffee cherries to make a pound of coffee.
- It takes 60 espresso beans to make a shot of espresso.
- One pound of espresso yields about 50 single shots.
- A Frenchman named Lebrun invented the first espresso machine in 1838.
- Coffee gained great popularity in the U.S. Civil War when soldiers
were given it as a ration.
- The first electric coffee grinder was developed in 1900.
- In 1900 coffee was sold door-to-door in a horse pulled wagon.
- The first commercial espresso machine was manufactured in Italy in
1906.
- It was Teddy Roosevelt who responded, “It’s good to the last drop,”
when asked if he wanted more coffee. Maxwell House adapted this as their longtime
slogan.
- The average age of a Barista in Italy is 48.
- Italians never drink espresso with meals; it’s a separate event. The
“coffee break” was designed by manufacturers to stimulate more work in the factories
after a jolt of caffeine.
- Voltaire, the famous French philosopher drank 50 cups of coffee a
day.
- Raw coffee beans soaked in water are chewed like candy in Africa.
- In many countries serving the oldest person their coffee first is
a sign of respect.
- Regular coffee drinkers have one-third the asthma symptoms as non-coffee
drinkers.
- Decaffeinated coffee sales are the highest in January due to New Years
resolutions.
- The Japanese consume the most coffee and are known to bathe in coffee
to reduce wrinkles.
- Britain and Italy have the lowest coffee consumption per capita in
Europe.
- The average Canadian adult consumes 12 pounds of coffee per year equivalent
to about 500 cups of coffee per year.
- More than 1/3 of the world’s coffee consumption occurs in North America.
- There are 26 million cultivated coffee acres in the world. The coffee
industry employs over 30 million people.
- One of every 177 people in the world is employed by the coffee industry.
- The most valuable agricultural product in dollars is coffee.
- When green coffee seeds fail to divide the form one concave seed called
a peaberry. They demand a large price and are very flavorful.
- A shot is generally one ounce of espresso when poured.
- 7 grams of espresso is the standard for a single shot, 14 grams for
a double.
- Coffee seeds are affected by climate and soil conditions.
- Coffee plants need 70 inches of rain per year to thrive.
- Red coffee cherries are known as drupes.
- Brazil and Colombia now produce 45% of the world’s coffee. 5 million
people in Brazil are employed in the coffee trade.
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