Becoming A Coffee Connoisseur, Chemistry 1120

Before coffee there were two choices for hydration - water or alcoholic beverage. The water was not purified so often made people sick. The alcohol would purify the beverage but made everyone drunk. Coffee, boiling water actually, gave a new source of fluids that was not alcoholic, was not full of microbes, and the caffeine gave a little kick.

Coffee quickly became the drink of intellect and industry being known to sharpen the mind. Taverns were replaced with a more sophisticated meeting place, the coffeehouse. These “led to the establishment of scientific societies and financial institutions, the founding of newspapers, and provided fertile ground for revolutionary thought.” [4]

Imaging if there was no more coffee in this world, how would you feel? Nowadays, coffee becomes an important part of people’s life. People who often work overtime, they drink coffee because caffeine can make you awake; people who have to wake up early in the morning, they drink coffee because instead of making breakfast, coffee is more convenient; people drink coffee during the free time, because it also tastes good.

The Drink of reason, coffee, seems to not have changed much culturally to this day, as when it is brought to the table over 250 years ago (pg. 170). Coffee remains to be the drink over which people meet

The drink was no longer just a utilitarian morning stimulant and has a satellite pastime very European style: the windows from floor to ceiling, special atmosphere, soft music, dozens of varieties of coffee. However, besides all this, coffee is a business not only successful, but also has today a huge potential for development.

The caffeine in coffee become an ethical increase over alcohol and have become a fashionable social beverage. It was interesting to see how it started off as this very exotic drink only for the upper class and then turned into what it is now. Coffee is a very fashionable drink that does not cost much that many have led their days with in today’s society.

Coffee has become an international popular drink with a record of 2.25 billion cups of coffee consumed daily (Climate Institute, 2016). People simply love, enjoy and need coffee. In fact, some people have considered coffee as a critical part of their day. Keeping that in mind, the demand of coffee will increase because people will be driven to buy coffee and drink based on the scientific data of advantages it provides.

Coffee has played a major role in the lives of many people around the world. “Yet, poetic as its taste may be, coffee’s history is rife with controversy and politics…[becoming a] creator of revolutionary sedition in Arab countries and in Europe” (Pendergrast xvi). After reading Uncommon Grounds, it is apparent that the history of coffee is intertwined with the aspects of the globalization process, the role of Multi-National Corporations, and global economic issues.

“How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweet far than muscatel wine! I must have my coffee, and if anyone wishes to please me, let him present me with–coffee!” (Bach). Inspiration of musical pieces, poems, and for college students everywhere, coffee is beloved all over the world in various roasts and styles. It has not always been this way, however. Coffee is relatively new to the Western world, becoming popular around the mid-17th century, but it has been actively consumed in the Middle East since at least 1000 AD. Economic competition ultimately caused the decline of coffee consumed in the Middle East, but that does not negate the historical, social, and political significance of the brew.

Coffee is one of the most popular beverages in the world and therefore is a popular commodity. More than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed every day. Over 90% of coffee is produced in developing countries, and millions of small producers’ income comes from growing coffee. Coffee is produced and exported mostly from South American countries, while mainly industrialized countries are the ones importing the most coffee. Worldwide, 25 million small producers rely on coffee for a living, and in Brazil, over 5 million people are employed by the commodity. Brazil is the top country in exporting coffee and is where almost a third of the whole world’s production of coffee is. Coffee is a more labor-intensive work culture than other commodities like sugar cane or cattle because it is not automated work and requires attention.

Coffee first arrived in the Dutch colony of Surinam in 1718, to be followed by plantations in French Guyana and the first of many in Brazil in the state of Pará.  In 1730 the British introduced coffee to Jamaica, where today the most famous and expensive coffee in the world is grown in the Blue Mountains.

Coffee comes from small green beans that are really pits of a fruit resembling a cherry. The morning coffee poured into a mug comes from a small tree (or bush) that grew for seven years before it bloomed and grew the fruit that held the beans. After one of

It is not certain how or when coffee was discovered though there are many myths about its source. However, the coffee grown around the world traces its origin mostly to the historic coffee forests located

Fast-forward about eighty years to the turn of the twentieth century, and the first decaffeinating process for coffee beans is invented and patented by another German, Ludwig Roselius. The method he employed is said to have come about accidentally when his shipment of imported green coffee beans was soaked in seawater, losing much of its caffeine. He took the basic extraction principle and enhanced it by adding solvents like Benzene and introducing steam to the

How do you start your morning? 93 per cent of the world will have the same result drinking a cup of Coffee. These days’ people will lose their minds if they don’t have caffeine in their system they would even try different types of coffee such as (cappuccino, espresso, latte…) the customers demanding for product choice, for quality values have made coffee a popular demand to the public worldwide. Value and Quality are the reason in which the customer choices an organization’s products in comparison to other competitions. So how does a tree that produces coffee is located possibly a 1000 meters up on a mountain in South America such as Brazil or in Asia or even African turn up in a cup of Nescafe inside your house and inside millions of people’s