How Much Coffee Trivia Do You Know?

I don't think that this is exactly a Jeopardy category yet, but coffee trivia is fun to look at and even more fun to know, especially if you want to strike up a conversation when you are waiting in line at a coffee house. So try this on for size. Did you know?

• Brazil is the leading coffee producer with almost 4 billion coffee trees.
• Coffee beans are hard when they are cultivated at a higher altitude of over 5000 feet.
• Flavored coffee became popular only in the US in the 1970s and then spread worldwide.
• Coffee was said to be attributed to the Arabs, which is why the Europeans called it "Arabian Wine".
• Bach wrote a coffee cantata in the 1700s.
• Café au lait was invented in France by a physicist for medicinal purposes in the 1600s.
• The first espresso machine was developed in France in the early 1800s.
• Most Americans were using a manual coffee grinder in their homes by the 1850s.
• In the Civil War, coffee was one of the main rations of the soldiers.

So with this knowledge up your sleeve, you will be sure to impress any coffee lover you know, or just have a smug expression on your face when you sip your latte!

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