| Coffee is easily North America's favourite beverage. | | | | light or dark. The roasting process takes the green |
| Anyone can see this by the massive line ups at | | | | raw coffee bean and turns it into the deep brown |
| Starbucks around the country. Still many do not | | | | we all know it as. |
| know the history or origin of coffee. How is it | | | | Roasting Times |
| harvested? Where did it originate? | | | | 7 Minutes - Light flavour the typical kind you find in |
| Coffee first originated in Ethiopia and has remained | | | | the supermarket |
| their most prized food import, coffee has been | | | | 9-11 Minutes - Medium full bodied roast sometimes |
| around since the 9th century. From Ethiopia the Arab | | | | known as a "city roast" |
| world expanded it's trade and coffee made it's way | | | | 12-13 Minutes - Dark roast sometimes known as the |
| to Africa and then Europe. Of course from Europe it | | | | french roast |
| was brought to us in North America. | | | | 14 Minuets- Darkest roast known as the espresso |
| Coffee beans are grown on a tree and are inside a | | | | roast. The beans actually smoke and the sugars in |
| berry known as a coffee cherry. The outside of the | | | | the beans caramelize and burn creating a darker |
| berry is bitter but the inside is very sweet and | | | | colour.the lightest roast has the most caffeine, as the |
| incubated inside the flesh are two coffee beans. The | | | | roasting times increase the caffeine decreases. |
| beans are harvested North of the equator between | | | | That is the world of the coffee bean from Ethiopia in |
| September and March and south of the equator | | | | the 9th century to your cup in the 21st , one thing is |
| between April and May. | | | | for sure coffee has been around for a long time and |
| The beans are then dried out and the outer layers | | | | will continue to be around for a lot longer . |
| removed. The beans are roasted according to how | | | | |