Payne Coffee

Here are some fun little coffee facts and statistics:

• 27% of US coffee drinkers add a sweetener or sugar to their coffee
• Over 7 million tons of green (unroasted) coffee beans are produced worldwide. Most of these beans are hand picked by workers in the fields.
• Hawaii is the only state in the United States that produces coffee. If you count the US territory of Puerto Rico as a state, then the United States of America has two coffee producing states.
• Germans consume about 16 pounds of coffee per person yearly. This makes Germany not only a large consumer of beer - but the second largest consumer of coffee in the world!
• More than 50 countries produce and grow coffee worldwide. However, not one of these countries the coffee boundary, which encompasses the regions between the tropic of Cancer and the tropic of Capricorn (including the Equator)
• Previously, until about the 1900’s, coffee was roasted in a frying pan over a charcoal or wood fire. Batch or large scale roasting, done by companies such as Starbucks, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and others, has only become popular in recent years.
• The drip coffee methods used today (by using a filter and dripping water through the ground coffee beans) produce a much better tasting coffee than what our ancestors drank. The original percolators, invented in France in 1827 over boiled the coffee, giving the coffee brew a very bitter taste.
• With over 4,000 million coffee trees, Brazil is the world’s largest coffee producer. Columbia holds the title as the world’s second largest producer of coffee, with around 3,000 million coffee bean trees.
• If you purchase hard bean coffee, the coffee was grown at an altitude surpassing 5,000 feet!
• Coffee Day is an official holiday in Japan. Let your bosses know this so that you may enjoy an extended coffee break on October 1.
• Most coffee is transported using ships and boats. Over 2,000 coffee transporting boats ship coffee worldwide, giving you and me some great tasting coffee.
• One acre of coffee trees can produce an astounding 5 tons of coffee cherries. Each coffee cherry contains a coffee bean. After milling and hulling, two tons of coffee beans are left for us to eventually enjoy!
• Flavored coffee, such as chocolate swiss almond, hazelnut, French vanilla, were invented and originated in the United States during the 1970s.
• Both Arabica and Robusta trees can produce coffee beans and cherries for 20 to 30 years, provided they are under proper conditions and given proper care.Arabica beans are the beans found in gourmet coffee blends, such as Starbucks, It’s a Grind, and The Coffee Beanery’s beans.Robusta beans are found in regular coffee blends such as Maxwell House and Folgers.
• The first coffee tree to be brought into the Western Hemisphere was brought to the French Island of Martinique.The French brought the coffee tree to Martinique during the 1720s.