Starbucks History
Coffee History
Elevation/Coffee Belt
Growing Regions
Coffee Agriculture
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The year Starbucks was founded
What is 1971
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The first reported discovery of coffee cherries
When is A.D, 800-900
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Starbucks only buys these high quality of beans
What are Arabica beans
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The 3 main coffee-growing regions
What is Latin America, Asia/Pacific and Africa/Arabia
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Once a coffee plant has reached maturity, these are the three steps in its yearly cycle of producing coffee cherries.
What is Flowering, Ripening and Harvesting
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Location of the first Starbucks store
What is Pikes Place Market
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These two "accidentally" figured out how to decaffinate coffee in 1903 when one of their shipments of coffee was soaked in seawater
Who is Ludwig Roselius and Karl Wimmer
200
Trees that are easier to cultivate and more resistant to disease grow this type of bean
What is robusta beans
200
The acidity and flavor that Latin American coffees tend to have
What is bright acidity and well-balanced flavors of cocoa or nuts with a crisp taste.
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The sweet, sticky, honey-like substance that coats the bean
What is mucilage
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The year Howard Schultz joined Starbucks
When is 1982
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Brazilian coffee had grown so prolific that there was a huge surplus. To reduce the surplus they reached out to a Swiss company Nestlé to create an easier way to make coffee. This method is called
What is instant coffee
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The location of the "Coffee Belt" is between these two tropics
What is Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn
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Starbucks primarily purchases washed coffees from this region that often have floral and citrus characteristics
What is Africa/Arabia
300
It's takes this amount of time for a coffee tree to mature and produce its first commercial harvest
What is three to four years
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The first Starbucks to open outside of North America was loacated here
Where is Tokyo, Japan
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Luigi Bezzera invented the first commercial espresso machine in this year. Rumor has it that he wanted his workers to have shorter coffee breaks, so he created a machine that sped up the process of brewing
When is 1901
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High quality Arabica beans thrive at this elevation
What is highest elevation between 3,000 to 6,000 feet
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Most coffees Starbucks buys from this region are processed using this method - known for full body, spicy flavors, balanced acidity and herbal notes.
What is Asia/Pacific and semi-washed
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A harvested crop of ripe coffee cherries is ready for the next stage: processing, which separates the fruit from the bean and prepares beans for sorting and bagging. These are the three processing methods used
What is washed, semi-washed, and natural
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Three young men who became the founders of Starbucks bringing the dark roast to Seattle.
Who is Jerry Baldwin, Zev Siegl and Gordon Bowker
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An affair with this woman made Brazil to be one of the world's largest coffee producing countries
Who is the wife of French Guiana's governor
500
Our coffee buyers travel across the Coffee Belt to discover and buy the very best green coffee each region has to offer. Many countries grow coffee, but Starbucks only buys from this many of them
What is half
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From the islands of Indonesia these coffee cherries pass through the digestive track of a civet, a small arboreal mammal. The beans are then collected from the forest floor, cleaned and roasted. This is the world's most expensive coffee.
What is Kopi Luwak
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The four most common Arabica varietals of coffee trees
What are Bourbon, Typica, Caturra and Catuai
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