Top 10 Coffee Fact Lists

Which country grows the most coffee around the world? There are predominantly 2 types of coffee beans, arabica and robusta. We have split theses totals into 3 results, a total of all coffee beans then arabica and robusta separately. Measurement is in coffee bags with each bag weighing 60Kg. These stats are 2010-11 crops.

Arabia Beans:
1) Brazil 41,850
2) Colombia 9,550
3) Ethiopia 4,300
4) Honduras 4,000
5) Peru 4,000
6) Guatemala 3,920
7) Mexico 3,550
8) Nicaragua 2,000
9) El Salvador 1,700
10) Costa Rica 1,575

Robusta Beans
1) Vietnam 18,175
2) Brazil 12,750
3) Indonesia 7,950
4) India 3,700
5) Cote d’Ivoire 2,100
6) Uganda 1,900
7) Malaysia 1,000
8) Thailand 900
9) Cameroon 520
10) Togo 520

Top 10 Coffee Consuming Countries (Totals):
1) U.S. 22,043
2) Brazil 19,573
3) Germany 9,460
4) Japan 7,015
5) France 5,962
6) Italy 5,689
7) Russia 3,695
8) Canada 3,574
9) Ethiopia 3,383
10) Indonesia 3,333

The top-10 coffee-consuming countries per capita:
1) Finland (11.8 kilograms per person per year)
2) Norway (9.6 kilograms)
3) Denmark (9 kilograms)
4) Iceland (9 kilograms)
5) Switzerland (8.2 kilograms)
6) Sweden (7.8 kilograms)
7) Aruba (6.8 kilograms)
8) Netherlands (6.7 kilograms)
9) Belgium/Luxembourg (6.6 kilograms)
10) Bosnia and Herzegovina (6.1 kilograms)

Top 10 coffee drinks
1) Regular Coffee
2. Espresso – ‘condensed’ coffee brewed by forcing water through coffee grinds.
3. Cappuccino – 2 parts espresso, 1 part steamed milk, topped with milk froth.
3. Cafe Latte – 1 part espresso, 1 part steamed milk and very little milk froth.
4. Cafe Au Lait – 2 parts espresso, 2 parts hot milk.
5. Cafe Americano – 1 part espresso and 3 parts hot water.
6. Macchiato – 1 part espresso and topped with milk foam.
7. Cafe Con Leche – 1 part espresso and 1 part steamed milk plus 1 tsp. sugar
8. Cafe Mocha – 1 part espresso & 2 parts steamed milk with 1tsp. cocoa powder.
9. Cafe Breve – 1 part espresso 1 part steamed half and half.
10. Espresso Con Panna – 1 part espresso – topped with whipped cream.

Top 10 Health Benefits (in no particular order)
Cut the Pain - Two cups of coffee can cut post-workout muscle pain by up to 48%.
Increase your fiber intake
Protection against cirrhosis of the liver
Lowered risk of Type 2 Diabetes
Lowered risk of Alzheimer’s disease
Reduces suicide risk
Protection against Parkinson’s
Coffee may ward off skin cancer
Cognitive performance
Antioxidant benifits

Feel free to submit your own top 10 list related to coffee and we'll get them published here while giving the author the credit.

Irish Coffee – how to do it properly

There's no better pick me up after Christmas dinner than a warming Irish Coffee. The tricky part of course is making it properly. I for one have met numerous people who claim to be able to make Irish Coffee properly... but when they fail miserably to float the cream, they blame the spoon, they blame the temperature of the cream, the quality of the coffee... anything but themselves.  Although the step by step instructions are simple enough, there is a knack to getting it right.

Quickly running through what you need for an Irish Coffee:

ñ  whiskey

ñ  hot black coffee

ñ  light brown or demerara sugar

ñ  cream

Regarding the whiskey, it doesn't have to be cask aged single malt at £50 a bottle, as any bog standard blended whiskey will do. Even if you consider yourself a whiskey snob, you won't taste any of the nuances through the coffee, so you're wasting your good whiskey using it in an Irish Coffee.

The coffee however does need to be good quality... so if you were reaching for that jar of Nescafe.. STOP!  Whatever you do, don't use instant coffee. Instead buy your coffee from a supplier such as www.denbydalecoffee.co.uk who only stock the good stuff. You can use fresh coffee beans to grind yourself, ground filter coffee, coffee pods or capsules... the format doesn't matter, it's the quality that counts.

Light brown or demerara sugar taste better with coffee than bleached white sugar. And the sugar is what thickens the hot coffee and whiskey mixture just enough to allow the cream to float. If you don't take sugar, then tough... the cream won't float without it unless it comes out of an aerosol. If you're skim reading this, I'll say it again just so you're doubly sure... the cream will not float if you don't use sugar!

Finally, we have the cream. It's up to you if you use single or double cream, as this wont affect its floatiness... what will affect its floatiness however is the sugar (!) and the method you pour the cream in. This is where some people have their silly ideas, such as stirring the coffee into a vortex (wrong!), pouring over the back of a red hot spoon (wrong!), using a 'squirty' cream (get out!).

The method, is simple. Preheat the glass or cup before pouring in the hot coffee & whiskey mix (4 parts coffee, 1 whiskey is nice). Then stir in two teaspoons of light brown or demerara sugar. This not only sweetens the coffee, but also makes it thicker so the cream will float... without the sugar it won't work. Next, place an upturned spoon against the side of the cup, just above the coffee and over this, slowly pour the cream. Providing you've thickened the coffee with sugar, it should float. Obviously the effect is best when poured into a glass, but the taste as you sip the hot block goodness through the cold creamy whiteness is just as good in either a cup or a glass.

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Illy Coffee

Here at Denby Dale Coffee, we are fanatic about illy coffee. Why? Well it's a coffee with heritage, concision, taste and amazing quality and taste. Using 100% Arabica beans in their blends, you can be sure the quality is unsurpassed.

Illy coffee beans are source from nine regions around the world, some of the globes finest coffee plantations. For illy, quality and sustainability are inseparable, only the truly excellent is sustainable, and anything worth sustaining surely is considered excellent.

Sustainability is considered three fold which covers economic, social and environmental.

Economic sustainability is pursued precisely through the creation of value for all stakeholders, from farmers who earn above market prices in exchange for meeting demanding quality standards, and to the coffee consumer, who enjoys a better coffee experience. Win win.

Social sustainability is based on the concept of individual growth and self-fulfillment, starting from coffee-growing communities enjoying improved living conditions due to improved and rising incomes.

Finally, environmental sustainability is achieved through respect for the planet through low-impact growing practices and recyclable packaging.

The regions green beans are sourced from include Colombia, Central America including Guatemala, Brazil, Ethiopia, Kenya and India. Each secret blend is expertly roasted, packaged using an effective, natural pressurisation technology which is patented around the world, and exclusive only to illy.

Browse our range of illy coffee which includes espresso beans, ground coffee and E.S.E. coffee pods and coffee capsules for the Francis Francis espresso machine.

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