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Some great gourmet coffee trivia:
* The Boston Tea Party was planned in a coffee house – the Green Dragon Coffee House
* One Coffee Tree or plant in its normal harvest will produce enough coffee cherries to make one pound of coffee bean
* 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 produces alot of gourmet coffee for its size – coming in second in the world with around two thirds of Brazil’s production of gourmet coffee.
* 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 a mocha latte could be divorced by her! [Read more…]
