What Happened to Coffee in America?
1913 Electric Percolator
What Happened to Coffee in America?
The year after the first electric coffee percolator came to market and the early vacuum glass pots were being sold, Joel Cheek, a former wholesale grocer, started blending coffee beans. He named his favorite blend “Maxwell House” after the hotel in Nashville, Tennessee where it was first served. This blended coffee and others were often infused with vanilla, cinnamon and hazelnut. Folgers coffee, founded in 1850 in San Francisco when it began selling coffee in tins there, bacame the J.A. Folger & Co.in 1872. In Italy, Luigi Lavazza began combining coffee beans from many different origins to create signature coffee blends. No other coffee producer had ever done this before, and it changed the face of coffee forever. Today, the blended beans of Lavazza Coffee are sold in eighty countries around the world. This is one of the most favorite coffees of espresso and French press drinkers.
The Hills brothers were also selling coffee. In 1900, they began packing their roast coffee in vacuum tins. Coffee was now being sold in sealed jars and vacuum tins. This brought about the end of local roasting shops and coffee mill shops where coffee had been ground to a desired size. More changes on what happened to coffee tomorrow.