Trivia The coffee boom has taken the country and the world by storm. Today, Americans consume over 300 million cups of coffee each day. Coffee is the largest agricultural commodity traded on world markets and second most traded commodity in the world after oil. Coffee is really a seed.
Peaberry coffee is actually a genetic mutation of the coffee cherry.
This occurs when only one coffee seed develops within the coffee cherry, looking more like a pea than a typical coffee bean. Ounce per ounce, light roasted coffee contains more caffeine than dark roasted coffee. A coffee taster is called a cupper, and might taste up to one hundred samples per day. Coffee plants bloom with beautiful white blossoms, which exhibit a sweet jasmine scent. A Hoshidona is a patio for drying coffee unique to Kona.