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Coffee Facts 


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Our knowledge of coffee is about 1000 years old

Coffee was first mentioned in literature by Rhazes, an Arabian physician


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The espresso drink is only 100 years old

The term café-espress has been used since the 1880s, well before espresso machines existed. It means coffee made to order, expressly for

the person ordering it. It also means coffee fresh in every sense of the word:

  • Made from fresh beans roasted at most two weeks prior to use,
  • Ground just before brewing,
  • Brewed just before drinking.

Ideally, all cafés and restaurants would serve even their regularly brewed coffee as espresso in this larger sense—freshly ground in press pots, neopolitans,

vacuum brewers or table top pourovers. The aroma of good coffee is delicate and dissipates in a matter of minutes after grinding, whether it is brewed or not.


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Coffee grows in the wild in the Limu region of Ethiopia

Coffee legend tells of the discovery of the first coffee trees in Ethiopia. Indeed, it is not hard to believe that coffee originated in a land where wild coffee tree

forests are still the primary source of harvested coffee. Generally wet processed, coffee from Ethiopia comes from one of three main growing regions -- Sidamo, Harer or Kaffa -- and

often bears one of those names. In the cup, an Ethiopian coffee tends to offer a remarkable and bold statement. It is full flavored, a bit down-to-earth and full bodied.


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Top grade Arabica coffee only yields 700kg to 1500kg per hectare


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The average coffee drinker consumes 4-6kg of roasted coffee p/yr

The average coffee drinker consumes 4-6kg of roasted coffee per annum; South Africans only consume 0.6kg per person per annum.


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It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach maturity

It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach maturity. The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of 500g of roasted beans.


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Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum

Coffee is the second most traded product in the world after petroleum


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Arabica beans contain half the caffeine of Robusta

Arabica beans contain half the caffeine of Robusta


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   Coffee is the earth’s biggest drink

Coffee Myths


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The name coffee comes from the Arabic word “qahwah”

The name coffee comes from the Arabic word “qahwah”, meaning wine FACT and not from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia

(Abyssinia), as many writers have supposed.


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Coffee originated in Brazil

In the Ethiopian highlands, where the legend of Kaldi, the goatherd, originated, coffee trees grow today as they have for centuries.

Though we will never know with certainty, there probably is some truth to the Kaldi legend. It is said that he discovered coffee after

noticing that his goats, upon eating berries from a certain tree, became so spirited that they did not want to sleep at night. Kaldi

dutifully reported his findings to the abbot of the local monastery who made a drink with the berries and discovered that it kept him alert

for the long hours of evening prayer. Soon the abbot had shared his discovery with the other monks at the monastery, and ever so slowly

knowledge of the energizing effects of the berries began to spread. As word moved east and coffee reached the Arabian peninsula,

it began a journey which would spread its reputation across the globe. Today coffee is grown in a multitude of countries around the world.

Whether it is Asia or Africa, Central or South America, the islands of the Caribbean or Pacific, all can trace their heritage to the

trees in the ancient coffee forests on the Ethiopian plateau.


                   

Coffee derived it’s name from the town of Kaffa in Ethiopia

The word "coffee" entered English in 1598 via Italian caffè. This word was created via Turkish kahve,

which in turn came into being via Arabic qahwa. This last is a word of uncertain etymology, which can mean

both "coffee" and "wine". There are several legendary accounts of the origin of the drink itself. One account

involves the Yemenite Sufi mystic Shaikh ash-Shadhili. When traveling in Ethiopia, the legend goes, he observed

goats of unusual vitality, and, upon trying the berries that the goats had been eating, experienced the same vitality.

A similar myth attributes the discovery of coffee to an Ethiopian goatherder named Kaldi and the Legend of Dancing Goats.