Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted, ground coffee beans. Darkly colored, bitter, and slightly acidic, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans, primarily due to its caffeine content, but decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes.

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Coffee professionals are fussy about the method they use to make coffee, the beans they use to brew, and perhaps even more so, about the techniques they employ to get the most out of each cup or pot.

Check out the lifecycle of coffee to learn more about coffee’s journey from planting seeds to recycling used coffee grounds. While most coffee cherries have two beans, in about 5% of the world’s coffee, there is only one bean. This is called a peaberry (or a caracol, which is “snail” in Spanish).