Andy

How many people drink coffee?

Since coffee was introduced to western civilization around three hundred years ago, the amount of people who drink coffee has exploded in numbers. It’s popularity, not just as a kick start to the day with that all important caffeine fix, but it a social beverage widely accepted as a ‘must have’ when visiting someone’s home. From it’s origins in Ethiopia, to the first coffee...

Andy

Coffee Origins

The History of Coffee Before the seventeenth century, the history of coffee was contained to Ethiopia in Africa and Arabia. It’s name originated from the Arabic Qahwah, through its Turkish form of Kahveh, becoming Koffie in Dutch. From the Levant it spread all the way into America, changing lifestyles everywhere it landed – first arriving in Venice, sweeping turbulently through Europe on its...

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The Coffee Belt

The majority of the worlds coffee is grown within the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer and is known as The Coffee Belt. As you will appreciate from the map, (courtesy of NationalGeographic.com), this is the tropical region above and below the Equator, where beans are born and cultivation thrives. From Kona, the Big Island of Hawaii to Brazil, to Ethiopia across to Indonesia within The Coffee...