Food & Drink / Drinks & Cocktails
Explore twenty carefully sourced facts about coffee and tea, spanning cultivation, preparation, chemistry, language, and celebrated drinking traditions across the globe.
About this topic
More in Drinks & Cocktails
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The coffee “beans” inside a coffee cherry are botanically what part of the fruit? | — |
| Which coffee species supplies most of the world’s specialty-grade coffee? | — |
| Which coffee-processing method removes fruit from the seeds before they are dried? | — |
| What is the tawny foam on top of a freshly extracted espresso called? | — |
| Which tool traditionally brews Turkish coffee in a small long-handled pot? | — |
| Which reusable filter is central to traditional Costa Rican chorreador brewing? | — |
| Which plant provides traditional black, green, white, and oolong teas? | — |
| Which processing step is allowed to proceed furthest when making black tea? | — |
| What powdered Japanese tea is whisked directly into water rather than strained out? | — |
| Which blossoms traditionally scent Chinese jasmine tea? | — |
| Which drink combines black tea, milk, sweetener, and warming spices in South Asia? | — |
| Which chewy ingredient gave Taiwanese bubble tea its best-known nickname? | — |
| Which South American plant is steeped and commonly sipped through a filtered metal straw? | — |
| What does the tea-processing abbreviation CTC stand for? | — |
| Which green tea is traditionally combined with fresh mint and sugar in Moroccan tea service? | — |
| What reusable culture ferments sweetened tea into kombucha? | — |
| What is the brief bubbling stage after hot water first wets fresh coffee grounds? | — |
| Which brewing variable usually increases extraction when coffee grounds are made finer? | — |
| Which Japanese tea ceremony utensil is the bamboo whisk used to mix matcha? | — |
| Which statement accurately describes commercially decaffeinated coffee? | — |
Modes in this set
Mastery ascension
Next: Coffee & Tea Around the World Master