Posts Tagged ‘coffee trees’
Coffee growing is quite labour-intensive process. The coffee tree is blooming during several months, that is why coffee cherries are ripened in different time. The harvest is protracted for a long time and each tree should be worked up more than once.
The season of coffee harvest in each country is different. For example, in [...]
If you have got a coffee sapling, it is quite easy to grow coffee tree in a flat. But growing of these seedlings is connected with a number of difficulties. As I already knew, coffee beans should be planted straight away after harvesting. So I got two berries, peeled them from outer red skin, washed [...]
The sort of coffee-tree Coffea arabica came from Ethiopia (Abyssinia), namely from the south-west part of Ethiopian Highlands, which is called Kafa. People used leaves and fruit of coffee-tree since ancient times, long before the Semite tribe on the Arabian Peninsula had known about this plant.
The discoverers of coffee weren’t the Arabs, but Ethiopians – [...]
The first coffee houses were opened in Oxford, England, in 1650. One year later – in London. By 1700 there were already about 2000 coffee houses in the capital of Great Britain.
London coffee-houses of XVII century have become famous as «Penny Universities», because with a cup of coffee it was possible to speak to painters, [...]
The plant, which giving coffee – if only this name does not deriver from the name of the drink, – come into the world as tiny sprout, which peeped out from furcated bean. This bean is planted into the sand and not very deep. As soon as sprout puts down roots, it so to speak [...]
In the world market several thousands of varieties of unblended coffee go on sale. Otherwise it is called varietal.
In a number of cases unblended coffee has the name of a country in which it is made, for example, Colombian coffee, etc.
Most varieties of unblended coffee have narrower trade name. They can get it [...]
