The US consume a mind-blowing 400 million cups of coffee per day.
This statistic totals 146 billion cups a year and this makes the United States a world-leader in the coffee world. The average cup of coffee is 9 ounces and about 83% of adults are drinking coffee. This makes up 75% of all the caffeine consumed in the US.
A coffee lover in America is luck to find that a great cup of coffee is in almost every city. In fact, a vast size of the population in the US loves coffee. Just recently a study has been created that help to determine and compare the different habits of drinking coffee in the various city. From this study, it was determined that there are 8 cities that are considered the best places for a coffee lover to live in and visit. They are; Kansas City, Austin Texas, Chicago, New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland and Seattle.
With several trips to the US this year already and a visit planned to the New York Coffee Festival in a few weeks’ time, La Cimbali’s coffee specialist Rob Ward reflects on his time spent at numbers one and two on the list – Seattle and Portland.
Rob says that all of the cities that made the top eight list produced by thrillist.com deserve to be there. He was last in Seattle for the SCAA exhibition and World Barista Championships in April this year. His previous trip to the US west coast and Seattle and Portland had been nine years before and was the first time that he experienced the ‘west coast way’ of doing things. Then, he tried short amazingly sweet, caramel & chocolate style espressos, and a lot of different blends, showing how exciting and charismatic each shot could be away from the mainstream chains that we are all used to in the UK as well as the US.
Both Seattle and Portland are eye openers for what is being done in the UK and how the UK could improve their offering. There were a great number of coffee places that had sprung up and most of them not just focussing on espresso but also exploring and developing new origins, their individuality, their processing techniques, roast heights and above all producing great new flavours!
Next stop for Cimbali is the New York Coffee Festival at the end of September where Rob will be popping in to see what is happening in the flourishing coffee scene in the great city.
For more details about the New York Coffee Festival visit: www.newyorkcoffeefestival.com
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