Editor’s Note: The following is a sidebar to KoreAm’s “Q&A with Blue Bottle Coffee Roaster Juliet Han,” which was published in our June/July 2015 issue.
• Specialty coffee (or when the highest-quality coffee beans are roasted to their greatest flavor potential through a combined effort by craftspeople) accounts for 51 percent of the overall coffee market share in the U.S.
• A coffee roaster closely monitors the coffee bean and applies scientific principles of heat transfer, thermodynamics and coffee chemistry to ensure the highest standard of quality and flavor.
• The retail value of the U.S. coffee market is estimated to be $46 billion. The U.S. imported about 27 million bags of coffee in 2013, making it the world’s largest single buyer, ahead of France, Germany, Italy and Japan. Women represent only 13 percent
• The U.S. imported about 27 million bags of coffee in 2013, making it the world’s largest single buyer, ahead of France, Germany, Italy and Japan.
• Women represent only 13 percent of coffee roasters in the U.S.
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Sources: Specialty Coffee Association of America and Roast Magazine. Featured image by Jane Kim/KoreAm.
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