Coffee is the most popular beverage worldwide with over 400 billion cups consumed each year.
Coffee, as a world commodity, is second only to oil.
Only about 20% of harvested coffee beans are considered to be a premium bean of the highest quality.
The 4,400 Arabica coffee cherries it takes to make a roasted kilogram of coffee are normally picked by hand as they ripen. Since each cherry contains two beans, it takes about 8,800 Arabica beans to make a kilogram of roasted coffee.
Coffee sacks are usually made of hemp and weigh approximately 60 kilogram when they are full of green coffee beans. It takes over 600,000 beans to fill a coffee sack.
Until the late 1800’s, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top frying pans were favored.
In the year 1809, Melitta Bentz made a filter out of her son’s notebook paper, thus inventing the world’s first drip coffee maker.
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