History indicates that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia around 500 a.d. by a goat herder.

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. It is taken from the coffee fruit - called a "cherry" - which usually contains a pair of beans.

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. Peaberry coffee makes up only 5-8% of the entire coffee crop, and produces a rich, more intense coffee flavor.

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. Peoples of coffee producing nations often refer to this blossoming as "snow" due to its appearance as it covers the rolling coffee fields.

During the roasting process, coffee beans "pop" – sounding much like popcorn, as they develop their brown color and flavor characteristics. A Hoshidona is a patio for drying coffee unique to Kona. A triangular roof on wheels is rolled back and forth to allow the suns rays to dry the processed beans, or to cover the coffee in case of unexpected rainfall.

In the future, genetically engineered coffee plants may produce coffee that is decaffeinated on the bush.

Coffee pickers in Hawaii are among the highest paid in the world.