Friday Faves #11 - Beverage

Friday Fave #11 - Favorite beverage

Well, I do enjoy a nice cold ice tea or lemonade in the summer-time, but hands down my favorite beverage of all time has to be COFFEE! I admit it, I'm a coffee-a-holic! Is there really such a thing? There should be!

I love going to Starbucks, Barnes & Noble Cafe, or any other fun coffee hang out with my homeschool-mom friends for a cup of hot coffee and some fellowship! When I'm home though, I love to pop a K-cup in my Keurig coffee maker and drink it while reading a good book. If you don't know what a Keurig is, take a look:

Wikipedia describes it best: Keurig is a coffee machine manufacturing company that is a subsidiary of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. Their machines are all designed to brew a single cup of coffee at a time, in under a minute. The coffee grounds are in prepared, single-serving K-Cups. The user is required to insert a K-Cup, place a mug under the machine and press a button."

Here are some fun and interesting facts about coffee:

• With the exception of Hawaii and Puerto Rico, no coffee is grown in the United States or its territories.
• The term "Cuppa Joe" came from "G.I. Joe," who always had his coffee.
• It is estimated that 100 million Americans drink a total of 350 million cups of coffee a day!
• In 1732, Johann Sebastian Bach composed his Kaffee-Kantate. Partly an ode to coffee and partly a stab at the movement in Germany to prevent women from drinking coffee as it was thought to make them sterile.
• A mature coffee tree will produce one to two pounds of coffee per growing season.
• Some of the worlds most powerful business, including Lloyds of London and the New York Stock Exchange, started life as a coffee houses.
• In 1683, one pound of coffee in New York was worth as much as 4 acres of land.
• Espresso has 1/3 of the caffeine of a regular cup of coffee.
• We say coffee beans although they are really berries.
• Beethoven who was a coffee lover, was so particular about his coffee that he always counted 60 beans each cup when he prepared his brew.
• Dark roasted coffees actually have LESS caffeine than medium roasts. The longer a coffee is roasted, the more caffeine burns off during the process.

Well, I gotta go grab a 'cuppa joe' and finish the book I'm reading.