Coffee Black As Hell, Strong As Death, Sweet As Love!
What variety is it and where do all these exotic tasting beans grow?
Lets take a quick tour.
The African country of Ethiopia is where Coffee growing first originated. Today it is hard to imagine that the countrys main coffee plantations still consist of mainly wild coffee tree forests just like it was when it was first discovered centuries ago.
From these humble beginnings coffee bean production and consumption has spread like wild fire throughout the world. In the twenty-first century coffee has grown to become the second largest international market globally, second only to oil in dollar value terms.
Coffee is grown in over 70 countries around the world which are specifically located in tropical and sub-tropical agricultural regions. Climate dictates where it can be grown for the simply reason the plants need plenty of sunshine and rain. From a narrow band centred on the equator of around 23 degrees north to 25 degrees south comes all of the world’s production of beans that produce the beverage of which a Turkish proverb describes as ‘black as hell, strong as death,...