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Flashback: Filter Coffee

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December 30, 2013

Germans love their coffee. On average, every German drinks some 148 liters of the beverage a year. The classic way to make it is using a coffee filter. Around two-thirds of the coffee consumed in Germany is prepared this way. We look at how the coffee filter came into being in Germany over a century ago.

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