Interesting gourmet coffee facts:

• The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house – the Green Dragon Coffee House

• 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. [Read more…]