Did you know.
In 1554, two merchants
Hakum van Alepo and
Dschems von Damaskus
founded the first coffee house
on European soil in
Konstantiopel?
Did you know.
That in 1582
Leonhard Rauwolf
an Augsburg Medicus
as first European gave
a descripion of coffee
in his travel report of Aleppo?
Did you know
That in 1645
the famous Café Florian
was opened on
Marcus square Venice.
Did you know.
When the Turks were
crushingly beaten in
Vienna in 1683,
they left behind
large quantities
of green coffee?
Did you know
The first coffee house
on German soil was
opened in Bremen
by Dutch emigrant
Jan Jansz van Huesden
in 1673?
Did you know.
In 1690 a Dutch ship
landed on the Arabian Coast
and the Dutch managed
to dig up some of
the precious coffeplants
and shiping them off?
Did you know.
In 1895 a skilled German
worker would earn 25.00 DM
for 50/60 hour of labor
A pound of coffee was sold for
2.00 DM, making it a luxury item.
Did you know
that approximately 10 million
people have a job because of coffee?
Did you know
that caffeine was discovered
by a German chemist
named Runge
- on advice of Councilor Goethe -
Did you know
That roasted coffee aroma
is built up from
hundreds of substances?
Did you know
That Germany after
the United States of America
the second largest
coffee market is?
Did you know
that the wild growing
"Coffea Canephora" (Robusta)
was discovered in 1860 near
Victora Lake in
Uganda?
Did you know
That one single morning
of slight frost
can destroy
a complete coffee harvest?
Did you know
that the Italian coffee specialty
Latte Macciato
translates as spotted milk?
Did you know
That the annual harvest
of a coffee plant
only amounts to
a pound of roasted coffee?
Did you know
that coffee probably
originated in Ethiopia
in the Province of Kaffa?
Did you know
that the worldproduction
of coffee bags
in 1999/2000 was
estimated at
104.5 million?
Did you know
that a coffee picker
picks about 50-100 kg
of Coffee berries a day
amounting to 10-20 kg
of Green coffee.
Did you know
that a coffe plant
start giving fruit
after 3-5 year and
has a commerical life expactancy
between 10 and 20 years?
Did you know
that a coffee plant
only gives about
0.5-1.0 kg of green coffee
a year?
Did you know
That a coffee flower
has the same color
and fragrance as
a Jasmine flower?
Did you know
That a coffee berry
needs ca 9 months
for ripening?
Did you know
Brazil and Columbia
account for nearly
40% of the raw coffee
production of the World
Did you know
That Franz Georg Kulczycki
established the first
coffeehouse in Vienna
in 1683?
Did you know
That the UK has
the largest market share
of soluble Coffee with 90%?
(in comparison, Germany about 15%)
Did you know
That in Germany,
mainly in Bremen and
Hamburg, constantly about
2 million bags at 60 kg of Green
coffee are stored?
Did you know
That a coffee berry
usually holds two seeds,
coffee beans with
the flat sides to each other?
Did you know
To give a coffee
the typical brand taste,
up to eight or more different
raw coffees of different
origin are used?
Did you know
That every "Bundesburger"
over 15 years
drinks 4 mugs a day
adding up to
165 ltr a year?
Did you know
That Johann Sebastian Bach
Kaffeekantate from 1732
was based on Leipzig Coffee Beans?
Did you know
That Joseph Roth, the great
Novelist and author of
the Radetzkymarsches
loved "wiener café"?
Did you know
That coffee is one of the four
most important global
goods and services.
After Oil the second in place
before Grain and Steel?
Did you know
That coffee in the so-called
coffee belt north and south
of the equator
grows around the world?
Did you know
That Ludwig Roselius
in 1905 a patent got on his
decaffeinated coffee HAG?
Did you know
That according to an ancient
Turkish law, witholding
coffee by the Husband
a trifling reason for divorce
for the wife was?
Did you know
That green coffee while
being roasted
loses 12-20% in weight and
increases it's volume by 50-100%
Did you know
That about25% of respondents
coffee drinks their coffee black,
29% with only milk, 5% with
only sugar, 29% with sugar and milk,
3.5% only with sweetner and 8.5%
drink it with sweetner and milk?
Did you know
That in the world around 50
shipping companies with approximately
1.500 ships,transport green coffee
from producing countries
to counsumer countries?
Did you know
The world holds almost
15 billion coffeeplants on
10 million acres of farmsoil
where coffee is harvested
Did you know
That wild grown
coffee is probably
older then Men?