Facts About Coffee

Specialty coffee, by definition, contains no defects and has a distinctive flavor in the cup.
In America, we consume over 300 million cups of coffee everyday.
In 2008, 17% of adult Americans drank a cup of coffee daily, while 62% were occasional consumers.
Coffee bean size depends on the growing and weather conditions in a specific country, but we estimate that one pound of roasted coffee contains nearly four thousand individual beans.

Coffee depulping machine at a processing plant at Lake Amatitlan, Guatemala (February 2005).

Coffee depulping machine at a processing plant at Lake Amatitlan, Guatemala (February 2005).

Coffee drying at the Santa Barbara farm in Antigua, Guatemala (January 2004).

Green coffee bean grading machine in Kona, Hawaii (September 2004).

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