Coffee History
Which people are the first to be recorded as producing a beverage using coffee beans?
What is Arabs?
The process of applying heat to green coffee beans to caramelize the sugars and create the desired flavor profile.
What is Roasting?
This is the fancy Italian name for the person who makes & serves your coffee.
What is a Barista?
There are 2 main types of coffee beans, Robusta & this type.
What is Arabic
The USDA reports that 47% of the coffee we import is from these 2 South American countries
What coffee is "good to the last drop"?
What is Brazil and Columbia?
What is Maxwell House?
According to legend, where was coffee first grown and harvested?
What is Ethiopia?
Buying model that has transparency at all levels. Buyer to interact directly with the farmer, play a direct role in the importing process.
What is Direct Trade?
the amount of matter removed from ground roasted coffee.
What is extraction?
The elevation that coffee plants are grown
What is 600-6,000ft
What is the coffee belt (20 degrees north & south of the equator)
The time of year coffee production takes place
Which coffee is the "best part of waking up"?
What is an entire year?
What is Folgers?
In the 17th century, France met and was charmed by coffee. Who was responsible for the introduction of the beverage in France?
What is Jean de Thevenot?
The release of gases that have been built up during roasting.
What is De-gas?
The pleasant, velvety texture of milk that is created when appropriately stretching milk.
What is Microfoam?
This term is used to describe the stress on a coffee cherry during processing.
What is a peaberry?
The country with the highest coffee consumption per capita.
Which instant coffee promised that it had true coffee flavor which is missing in other brands?
What is Finland?
What is Chase & Sanborn?
The history of coffee began in the 14th century when it was first cultivated by the Arabs. What does the Arabic word "qahwa", the word of which "coffee" is the anglicanised form, mean?
What is Wine of the bean?
This happens as each bean loses its moisture during the roasting process.
What is "it pops"?
A catch-all term for most any manual filtered brew method in which water is poured over coffee grounds and gravity is the agent extracting the coffee.
what is a pour-over?
The annual yield of a coffee tree.
What is 1 pound?
The life span of a coffee tree
What does Starbucks call its brand of instant coffee which comes in portable packets of one cup envelopes?
What is 80yrs? but average is 30 yrs?
What is Via
The story of the spread and the establishment of coffee in England is unique on its own. The beverage became extremely popular and coffeehouses swept the country. Yet, one English King attempted to ban them. What was his name?
What is Charles II?
This process causes starch to convert to sugar and proteins to disintegrate.
What is Pyrolysis?
A common affliction for baristas using semi-automatic espresso machines. After grinding and dosing espresso, the barista will level the coffee with their finger causing a noticeable staining and callusing of the skin.
What is Barista Finger?
Tool used by professionals to evaluate qualitative traits.
What is cupping?
The first buying model recognizing that farmers should be paid fairly for their products.
Which coffee marketing campaign promised "heavenly coffee"?
What is Fair Trade?
What is Chock Full O Nuts?