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04/05/2005: "Coffee Trivia"

Questions:

1. How much coffee will a typical coffee tree produce in a year?

2. What did early European drinkers call their coffee?

3. What type of grind is best for use in a french press brewer?

4. How many red-ripe coffee cherries must be picked to make up a pound of roasted coffee?

5. Is coffee really a bean?

6. Which contains less caffeine, Arabica coffee or Robusta coffee?


ANSWERS

1. About a pound.

2. Arabian wine.

3. A course grind.

4. Approximately 2,000.

5. Coffee is not a true bean. Coffee "beans" are seeds of the coffee shrub.

6. Arabica coffee contains about half the caffeine of Robusta.


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