What is Cuban Coffee?

May 18,2024

What is Cuban Coffee? The History of Cuban Coffee? In the mid-1700s the coffee growing was introduced to Cuba and by 1790 significant amounts of Cuban coffee beans were being exported to Spain. Cuba’s coffee bean industry expanded when French coffee farmers began farming coffee in Cuba. Coffee bean sales exceeded sugar sales in the 1820s and by the early 1950s coffee bean exports reached 20,000 tons. The Cuban Revolution of 1956 nationalized coffee farms and this started the decline of the Cuban coffee bean industry. Coffee production continued to languish during the 1960s and 1970s and then surged in the late 1970s and into the 1980s. The principal benefactor of Cuba was the Soviet Union and with the fall of the Soviet Union in 1990 Cuba’s coffee growing industry once again began to wane. Cuba Coffee Growing Regions One