History and Production of Coffee and its Presence in the United States

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.

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Bongo Java Roasting Co., located in Nashville 's historic Five Points area, is quickly becoming a hipster haven. On any given day of the week you can spot musicians and artists hanging out in their natural habitat, sipping lattes and cappuccinos, talking business. The staff is just as creative and stylish as the shop 's patrons, with tattoos, funky haircuts, and infectious personality. At Bongo Java Roasting Co. not only can you enjoy some of the best drip coffee and espresso drinks in town, you can actually watch the roasting process as it is happening. Bongo Java Roasting Co. specializes in 100% organic and 100% fair-trade coffee. This means that they use only the highest quality, hand-picked beans from around the world, but also pay the farmers a respectable, livable wage. Unfortunately, this is not common practice in the coffee industry. This is what makes Bongo Java so unique. The company started seventeen years ago as a small coffee shop with only one location. Since then Bongo Java has become a Nashville staple with three busy locations, as well as a progressive business model in the specialty coffee industry. The a seemingly endless variety of coffee is roasted five days a week. The roasters at Bongo take a hands-on approach to ensuring that their coffee is the best in Nashville. They man a large roaster that cranks out about forty pounds per batch, which is microscopic compared to most corporate coffee roasters. But the expertise of the employees and attention to

Even though a "coffee bean" could be easily recognized, it might be more difficult to spot a coffee tree. Coffee seeds work well when they are planted in large, shaded beds. After the seeds begin to sprout, they are replanted in individual plots. They are usually planted in the wet season because the plant needs the moisture. Coffee trees are covered with waxy, green leaves that produce white flowers. Those flowers will die after a few days and small cherries will begin to grow. They will turn continue to change colors as they grow. Depending on its variety and care, a coffee tree can produce fruit for a long time. “The tree of Coffea Arabica will grow fruits after

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.

For each cup of fresh coffee, coffee beans should be grounded just before brewing. Therefore, for each customer, the coffee is treated as fresh produce. Coffee should not be overexposed to oxygen, light, heat and moisture. In order to save customer from the time of waiting for the clerk to grind their coffee, customers can grind their own coffee beans in the store. Instead of walking in to wait in line, customers can help the process by grinding their own coffee beans before getting in line. The grinder will be pre-set to grind the coffee beans to the perfect texture of fineness.

Around the world, one of the well-known beverages and the most consumed or exported product, after petroleum, is none other known as coffee. Coffee is developed in around over 80 nations and involves itself in worldwide business. Specifically, the universal coffee trade includes about 500 million people for management; beginning from cultivation until the final consumption. The coffee industry manufactures huge amounts of coffee-by-products which are considered as prosperous nutrient resources. Examples of these by-products are such that of coffee husks and

Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Americans consume about 400 million cups of coffee per day. That is 4629.6 cups of coffee every second. Coffee beans can also be used in many other ways. It is used in culinary arts, fragrance uses, and even health benefits. For instance, coffee is used to prevent Parkinson’s disease, gallstones, and type 2 diabetes. Coffee is something that many people depend on. Some depend on it for its natural caffeine, practical uses, and health benefits, others for an income. Needless to say, that it is very important to millions of people around the world. Coffee is an important commodity to many people and climate change is negatively affecting the production of coffee to a point where it may go extinct in the next century, impacting an estimated 120 million people.

Coffee has been around for many first discovered in 850 A.D by a goatherder who noticed an energetic change in the goats after eating the red berries. “The name coffee comes from the Kaffa region of Ethiopia where coffee trees grow wild” (). Ethiopia is considered a major exporter of Arabica coffee beans. Arabica trees grown in the wild have been known to produce coffee beans for up to thirty years. Whereas the shrub or small tree also known as Coffea, that grows 15 to 20 feet high, will produce a mature fruit that looks like a cherry and contains two seeds that is surrounded by a sweet pulp. In addition, coffee has been cultivated in warm climates

It takes 3 to 4 years for a newly planted coffee tree to start producing its fruit. Once the berries are collected the race begins. This process has to begin as soon as possible in order to prevent the berries from spoiling and damaging the final taste of the coffee. There are two methods used to process the coffee berries into coffee beans. The dry method or “old method” is used in many countries where water resources are limited. This process reduces the moisture content of the cherries to below 15%. The second method is the wet method, by using this process the beans have to be sun dried until the moisture content is below 11%. After the moisture is reduced, we obtain a green bean that after roasting and grinding, becomes what we find in the shelves of our supermarkets as coffee

As a result of these three great coffee origins and time, the saline sea air transformed the coffee drastically. This makes the

Coffee is the third most consumed beverage in the world – just after water and tea - yet very few people know anything about its chemical composition. What is it in coffee that causes its deep brown color? What about its alluring aroma and bitter taste? The obvious answer many think of is caffeine, and while it is the compound in coffee that actually affects the brain by blocking the action of a natural brain chemical, adenosine (Ramos, 1), caffeine has no known effect on the taste of coffee. In reality, coffee is composed of a myriad of different chemical compounds which all influence either the taste, or color, of roasted coffee.

Opportunities exist in coffee roasting and grinding, with a further potential such as in the production of decaffeinated coffee for export.

Processors are individual workers or farmers who already have the needed equipment to process the coffee

Depending on the variety, it will take approximately 3 or 4 years for the newly planted coffee trees to begin to bear fruit. The fruit, called the coffee cherry, turns a bright, deep red when it is ripe and ready to be harvested. In most countries, the coffee crop is picked by hand, a labor-intensive and difficult process, though in places like Brazil, where the landscape is relatively flat and the coffee fields immense, the process has been mechanized. Whether picked by hand or by machine, all coffee is harvested in one of two ways