Arizona Coffee

Until the late 1800’s, people roasted their coffee at home. Popcorn poppers and stove-top frying pans were favored.

“Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and as sweet as love” - Turkish Proverb

Until the 18th century coffee was almost always boiled.

Those British are sophisticated people, in almost everything except their choice of coffee. They still drink instant ten-to-one over fresh brewed.

The history of the word cappuccino exemplifies how words can develop new senses because of resemblances that the original coiners of the terms might not have dreamed possible. The Capuchin order of friars, established after 1525, played an important role in bringing Catholicism back to Reformation Europe. Its Italian name came from the long pointed […]

I rarely post personal notes here at Arizona Coffee however just for once I figured a personal update would be in order to let everybody know I’m still alive and haven’t given up on all of my side projects.
Arizona Coffee is one of them. Despite the fact that it’s the one thing that really […]

Starbucks Gossip had a post last week asking why the music was suddenly louder at Starbucks. The writer had noticed a trend where music was so loud he couldn’t even think. His theory being it was a move to distract and drive away laptop users.
Critics said it was just that he was closer to the […]

The heavy tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773, which caused the “Boston Tea Party,” resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. Drinking coffee was an expression of freedom.

The coffee tree produces its first full crop when it is about 5 years old. Thereafter it produces consistently for 15 or 20 years.

The average annual coffee consumption of the American adult is 26.7 gallons, or over 400 cups.

For my birthday I visited a restaurant called The Rose in Prescott and for dessert my parents and I decided to try two kinds of dessert. One was a walnut sort of cake which simply tasted amazing. Somewhere between a pecan pie and a butter cake. It was served warm with vanilla ice cream and […]

Scandinavia has the world’s highest per capita annual coffee consumption, 26.4 pounds. Italy has an annual consumption per capita of only 10 pounds.

People are saying that the speech Howard Schultz gave at the 2006 Starbucks Shareholders Meeting was very good. I found a link to the speach and you can download an mp3 as well. Check out Brand Autopsy.

On a trip up to Prescott just the other day I wrote down the names of a few coffee shops. I didn’t get to try any of them (too bad!) and figured I’d post a list for my next trip.

Cuppers Coffee Shop — This joint looks classy
Yellow Leaf Coffee Co. — Looks like a drive […]

Roasted coffee beans start to lose small amounts of flavor within two weeks. Ground coffee begins to lose its flavor in one hour. Brewed coffee and espresso begins to lose flavor within minutes.

Over 5 million people in Brazil are employed by the coffee trade. Most of those are involved with the cultivation and harvesting of more than 3 billion coffee plants.

Latte is the Italian word for milk. So if you request a latte’ in Italy, you’ll be served a glass of milk.

Large doses of coffee can be lethal. Ten grams, or 100 cups over 4 hours, can kill the average human.

Irish cream and Hazelnut are the most popular whole bean coffee flavorings.

In Sumatra, workers on coffee plantations gather the world’s most expensive coffee by following a gourmet marsupial who consumes only the choicest coffee beans. By picking through what he excretes, they obtain the world’s most expensive coffee -’Kopi Luwak’, which sells for over $100 per pound.