Origins
The country in which Arabica coffee first appeared.
What is Ethiopia?
The ideal year-round temperature for Arabica coffee, in Farenheit.
What is 70 degrees?
Coffee will taste freshest if this process is completed immediately before brewing, because it greatly increases the surface area exposed to potential oxidation.
What is grinding?
Fair-trade, organic company in West Bridgewater, MA that buys from grower cooperatives and is itself a worker-owned cooperative.
What is Equal Exchange?
The largest producer and exporter of coffee year after year, it is also a major consumer.
What is Brazil?
The first place outside of Africa to grow coffee.
What is Yemen?
Ideal annual rainfall for coffee, in inches.
What is 70 inches?
A variety of coffee that originated in West Africa and is considered much more bitter than Arabica coffee.
What is robusta?
Fair-trade, organic roaster in Orange, MA led by a human-rights lawyer with a sense of humor AND a passion for justice.
What is Deans Beans?
This Asian country grew so quickly from a minor producer to the world's second largest that it created a worldwide Coffee Crisis in the late 1990s.
What is Vietnam?
The mythical goatherd who is said to have discovered coffee.
Who was Kaldi?
The kind of coffee that resists heat and disease better than Arabica does.
What is robusta?
A widely known coffee brand whose name derives from the French for "without caffeine."
What is Sanka?
A specialty coffee roaster that moved from Virginia to Lake Winnipesaukee, NH in 2016.
What is Lucas Roasting?
Juan Valdez is a fictional coffee farmer introduced in 1958 to promote the reputation of this country, the world's third-largest producer of coffee.
What is Colombia?
The empire whose expansion introduced coffee to the wider world.
What was the Ottoman Empire?
The direction in which coffee cultivation might need to move within a region as temperature increases.
What is uphill?
The most popular brewing device for "coffee hour" in religious communities can make coffee bitter because of high temperatures and continuous rebrewing.
What is a percolator?
Small-batch roaster in Sudbury, MA where BSU Coffee Week students learn about the roasting craft in detail.
What is Karma Coffee?
This island country is currently ranked fourth in both coffee production and population size.
What is Indonesia?
City whose governor ordered the closing of all coffeehouses in 1551, fearing that conversations might lead to insurrection.
What is Mecca?
A stage of plant development that can arrive far too early if climate change disrupts the timing of wet and dry seasons.
What is flowering?
This brewing device made of laboratory glassware is visually appealing, having garnered museum exhibitions and design awards.
What is a Chemex?
Exquisite café in Clinton, MA whose owner frequently travels to origin with the Coffee Maven.
What is Coffeelands?
The country that is ranked 5th in coffee production but is the favorite of coffee agronomists, because it is the only place in the world where wild varieties of Arabica can be found.
What is Ethiopia?