Fun Coffee Facts

• Turkish Bridegrooms were once required to promise to provide their wife with coffee during their marriage Ceremony
• Union Soldiers in the American Civil war received coffee in their rations
• Coffee beans are really berries
• In Turkey and Greece the elders are always served coffee first
• Louis XV was said to have spent s staggering $ 15000 on coffee each year
• The first coffee mill was invented in London in 1665
• The first coffee house was opened in 1530 in Damascus, Syria
• 1kg of roasted coffee needs 4000-5000 beans
• Coffee is the most consumed beverage in the World
• Brazil is the Worlds largest exporter of coffee
• Coffee from the Arabica plant makes up 75-80% of the Worlds coffee
• It takes 5 years for a coffee plant to reach maturity
• Coffee is the second most traded community in the World after oil
• Life is too short for bad coffee so order some wonderful coffee from around the Globe freshly roasted when your order is received!

“Fun Coffee Facts”
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