A post today about coffee trivia for the most addicted amongst us!

Many consider espresso to be the strongest coffee you can buy. It actually contains only one third of the caffeine of a regular cup of filter coffee. This is because it is made with the finest quality Arabica beans, which contain less caffeine than Robusta beans, which are used in many coffee drinks…

Starbucks is the largest coffee retail franchise in the world at 15,000 stores worldwide, but it actually sells more milk by volume than coffee…

Transportation of coffee beans is largely done by ship. There are more than 2,500 commercial ships making these journeys each year…

There are 10,000 coffee houses in Tokyo alone! Japan is the world’s third most enthusiastic coffee-drinking nation…

Nestlé in Switzerland invented the first freeze-dried coffee, Nescafé, in 1938…

When a coffee tree is in bloom, it is covered in 30,000 white flowers which begin to turn into fruit after 24-36 hours. A coffee tree can bloom up to 8 times a year, depending on rainfall…

More than 100 million people worldwide make their living from coffee…

It is the world’s second most popular drink, after water…

There are 900 varieties of Arabica…

A coffee aroma develops at the tenth minute of roasting. Coffee increases in volume during roasting by 18.6%…

When people think of Mocha, they imagine a coffee with chocolate added to it. However, originally, the term was used because there is a coffee bean called Mocha that comes from Yemen that has a chocolatey taste…

Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange started out life as coffee houses…

In 2001, Brazil produced a coffee-scented postage stamp to promote its coffee industry. The smell lasts for 3-5 years…

Theodore Roosevelt was an obsessive coffee drinker, consuming a gallon of it a day! Even I wouldn’t recommend this…

The coffee filter was invented by Melitta Benz, a German housewife in 1908 because she was tired of the grounds in her cup of coffee making her drink taste bitter…

In ancient Arab culture, a woman could only divorce her husband if he did not provide her with enough coffee…

New Yorkers consume, on average seven times more cups of coffee than the inhabitants of any other city in the USA…

It is common knowledge that coffee grounds sprinkled around plants will keep snails and slugs away. But did you know that a mixture of coffee grounds and sugar, fed to a jaded pot plant and watered regularly will revive it..?

The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of one roasted pound of coffee…

You can choose to bathe in coffee, tea, noodles or wine in The Japanese Spa in Hagone, Kanagawa…

Irish coffee was invented to warm up cold Americans leaving from Ireland by plane…

Dorothy Jones of Boston was the first American coffee trader, In 1670 she was granted a license to sell coffee…

Coffee is actually a fruit. Coffee beans are the pit of a coffee berry, or cherry, which is initially yellow, but which then turns orange and finally red 6-8 months after flowering…

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a coffee cantata, Schweigt Stille, Plaudert Nicht…

The addition of milk to coffee is thought to have started because a French doctor prescribed ‘cafe au lait’ to his patients…

Cambridge University developed the first webcam to warn them when the coffee pot needed refilling…

If you are health conscious, then you need to know that a brewed espresso contains 2.5% fat, whilst a filtered coffee only contains 0.6%…

Voltaire, the French philosopher, drank 50 cups a day…

It takes five years for a coffee tree to reach full maturity, coffee trees have a life span of 50-70 years but can live to up to 100 years old…

A lethal dose of caffeine is considered to be 100 cups of coffee…

Espresso is thought to be such a necessity to life in Italy, that the Italian government regulates it…

Someone found a way to brew coffee with marijuana in it, for a definite ‘spacey’, coffee buzz…

There are 65 countries in the world that grow coffee and they are all along the equator…

Hawaii and Puerto Rico are the only two places in the States that grow coffee commercially…

There are two types of coffee plants, Arabica and Robusta…

Being a Barista in Italy is a highly respected profession, since it is considered something of an art form. The usual age for a good Italian Barista is 48…

Before coffee caught on in the US in the 1700s, beer was drunk for breakfast…

Coffee is the second largest traded commodity in the world, oil is the largest…

In Africa coffee beans are soaked in water mixed with spices and served as candy to chew…

Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world today, producing over 44 million bags of coffee each year, 27 million of which are exported, harvested from 4 billion coffee trees…

When Arab traders first brought coffee to Italy, Italian clergymen declared it the drink of the devil. However, Pope Clement VII loved the taste so much, that he ‘saved’ it for Christianity by having it baptised in 1600…

The U.S. is the largest coffee consuming country in the world, at 400 million cups per day, but did you know that we get through 1400 million cups a day globally..?

The average yield from one tree is the equivalent of one roasted pound of coffee…

Caffeine is present in the coffee plant to put animals off eating its fruit…

In the 1600s, the first coffee houses in England were known as ‘penny universities’ because one penny was charged for admission and a cup of coffee…