Coffee Facts
↠ Despite it being called a ‘bean’, coffee is actually a fruit. The "beans" grow on a bush and are found in the centre of a berry, known as a coffee cherry.
↠ Beethoven, loved coffee and was apparently quite obsessive about it, using precisely 60 beans per cup and would spend time counting out each bean.
↠ Brazil is one of the biggest coffee hotspots, and it’s responsible for around a third of all the coffee in the world?
↠ Finland drinks the most coffee! On average they drink 12kg per person, per year which works out to an impressive 1,680 cups on average each a year.
↠ In 1932, the Brazilian government didn’t have enough money to send their athletes to the Olympics, so they funded the trip by selling coffee. They loaded up a ship of coffee beans, hoping to sell it to California on their way.
↠ Before coffee was discovered to be a beverage, it was actually a food. East African tribes would grind the berries and mix them with animal fat to eat.
↠ Two types of coffee bean are used for drinking; Robusta and Arabica. Arabica has lower acidity and smoother taste, whereas Robusta is more acidic and bitter.
↠ For a coffee to be classed as decaf, it needs to have less than 0.3% caffeine.
↠ Once caffeine has been removed (for decaf coffee), the caffeine will usually be sold to pharmaceutical companies.
↠ NESCAFÉ® produced the first instant coffee.
↠ Coffee was actually banned in Sweden temporarily in 1746, along with anything related to it, including cups and saucers!
↠ Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, and as of 2019, it cost $600 per pound. Native to Indonesia, the coffee is roasted after being eaten, digested and expelled by the Palm Civet.
↠ The largest cup of coffee ever made was 26,939.22 litres. It was made in Mexico, on 10 December 2022, took 300 kg of coffee and currently holds the Guinness World Record.
↠ Coffee beans are green when they are picked and after roasting, coffee beans become darker and softer.
↠ The first known coffee house was established in 1475 in Istanbul, Turkey. The coffee house, known as “Kiva Han,” served a wide variety of coffee drinks that had been brought to the city by traders from Yemen, Ethiopia and other parts of the world.
↠ Starbucks is the world’s largest coffee company, with more than 30,000 stores in over 75 countries. Founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, Starbucks has the most stores in the United States.
↠ Beethoven, loved coffee and was apparently quite obsessive about it, using precisely 60 beans per cup and would spend time counting out each bean.
↠ Brazil is one of the biggest coffee hotspots, and it’s responsible for around a third of all the coffee in the world?
↠ Finland drinks the most coffee! On average they drink 12kg per person, per year which works out to an impressive 1,680 cups on average each a year.
↠ In 1932, the Brazilian government didn’t have enough money to send their athletes to the Olympics, so they funded the trip by selling coffee. They loaded up a ship of coffee beans, hoping to sell it to California on their way.
↠ Before coffee was discovered to be a beverage, it was actually a food. East African tribes would grind the berries and mix them with animal fat to eat.
↠ Two types of coffee bean are used for drinking; Robusta and Arabica. Arabica has lower acidity and smoother taste, whereas Robusta is more acidic and bitter.
↠ For a coffee to be classed as decaf, it needs to have less than 0.3% caffeine.
↠ Once caffeine has been removed (for decaf coffee), the caffeine will usually be sold to pharmaceutical companies.
↠ NESCAFÉ® produced the first instant coffee.
↠ Coffee was actually banned in Sweden temporarily in 1746, along with anything related to it, including cups and saucers!
↠ Kopi Luwak is the most expensive coffee in the world, and as of 2019, it cost $600 per pound. Native to Indonesia, the coffee is roasted after being eaten, digested and expelled by the Palm Civet.
↠ The largest cup of coffee ever made was 26,939.22 litres. It was made in Mexico, on 10 December 2022, took 300 kg of coffee and currently holds the Guinness World Record.
↠ Coffee beans are green when they are picked and after roasting, coffee beans become darker and softer.
↠ The first known coffee house was established in 1475 in Istanbul, Turkey. The coffee house, known as “Kiva Han,” served a wide variety of coffee drinks that had been brought to the city by traders from Yemen, Ethiopia and other parts of the world.
↠ Starbucks is the world’s largest coffee company, with more than 30,000 stores in over 75 countries. Founded in 1971 in Seattle, Washington, Starbucks has the most stores in the United States.