Weekly Wake-up
Where is coffee really grown?
Alright, this week is based off what I’ve been hearing some confusion on recently, what is the significance of a country’s coffee and do they grow it?
This confusion seems to be coming from the knowledge that places such as Italy and Australia/ New Zealand are famous for their coffee but that doesn’t mean that they grow the beans, when a country is famous for its coffee its more in reference to the culture and not always the produce.
Italy/ Europe
Europe and especially Italy has been known as the centre of coffee culture thanks to Italy’s invention of the espresso machine, since this Italy has set the example and standard for espresso based drinks and almost all of café culture as a whole. Something people don’t quite realise is that almost all of Europe cannot grown coffee and thus when you see Italian coffee on a bag of beans its actually in reference to the roast level as a standard style for the country. The term of Italian coffee can also be used when refereeing to espresso made using the standardised Italian espresso recipe. (14 grams in to 60 ml out in 20-30 seconds)
Australia and New Zealand
To be fair, Australia and New Zealand are both able to grow coffee in some places but not to a really large scale like that of the main coffee producers. These two countries have kinda taken over Italy as the leaders of the coffee world as their cafe culture has become a standard for most of the specialty coffee scene.
Their coffee standards are world leading with new espresso recipes setting the normal of a 1:2 ratio for extractions too!
Hope this cleared things up! Maybe this week go out and try a flat white or long black to see the difference from the usual cafe drinks such as latte and cappuccino, trust me the flat white is so much better than all other milk drinks.
Hope you have a great week and some even better coffees!
