Have You Given A Thought To Where Your Cup Of Espresso Is Coming From?
The most amazing fact about the coffee beans is the trees having an expansion over 70 countries, from Brazil to Indonesia, still requiring a narrow range of conditions to produce those quality ‘beans’, while the total output remains small at large.
‘Beans’ as it is said so, is however a deliberate attempt to mark it in a single-quote, for the thing that gets ground and roasted to brew up the delicious drink is a seed and not a bean at all.
The coffee tree, which can easily grow up to twenty feet or more than that, bears the fruits that contain the coffee seeds. However some wild varieties of coffee trees can grow to over 15m or 45 feet. Most of the seeds are in pairs except for the Peaberry, which produces only one. It’s quite like a cranberry, at the outer there is a membrane called silverskin with a sweet pulp inside it.
The overwhelming majority of the world’s coffee output comes from a sphere around the equator that extends to approximately 25 degrees north or south. A temperature between 60F and 70F and with a rainfall of 6″ per...