Guinness World Record Cup of Coffee
to benefit Susan G. Komen for the cure
Guinness World Record Cup of Coffee
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GourmetGiftBaskets.com Brews World's Largest Cup Of Coffee: 2,010 Gallons to Break Guinness World Record at Blog World Expo, October 15
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THE WORLD’S LARGEST CUP OF COFFEE CROWNED OFFICIAL
GourmetGiftBaskets.com
doubles previous record with a cup of java holding 2,010 gallons!
LAS VEGAS, NV (October 18, 2010) As declared at 12 p.m. PST by a Guinness World Record Official, GourmetGiftBaskets.com has broken the
Guinness World Record for the Largest Cup of Coffee
at Blog World Expo, in Las Vegas Nevada. The record in the making began brewing at 4 a.m. PST October 15 and the last cup was poured in right before 12 p.m. A giant 8x8 foot specially constructed coffee mug holds the 2,010 gallons of fresh coffee. 2,010 gallons is equivalent to 32,160 cups of fresh brewed coffee.
The previous record was set in 2007 at only 911.5 gallons.
GourmetGiftBaskets.com
broke this record early in the day at 7:45 a.m. and kept on going! Ryan Abood, CEO of
GourmetGiftBaskets.com
, saw the previous record and thought “now this will be an easy one to break.” Not quite “easy,” but definitely rewarding and something everyone at Blog World Expo, the world’s largest social media conference, has been talking about for days.
Upon breaking the World’s Largest Cup of Coffee, Abood and his team of 15
GourmetGiftBaskets.com
employees also broke the Guinness World Record for World’s Largest Cup of Iced Coffee on October 16, implementing the same system they perfected with the hot cup of joe but with a little more tweaking. The iced coffee was required to be below 45 degrees and it took 3,500 pounds of ice to attain the record breaking temperature. Not to mention, they had to empty out 100 gallons of coffee to accommodate the ice and after taking all day to perfect, finally broke the record as the show’s doors were closing!
“We wanted to break both records because we had this massive cup and thought, we’d be crazy not to,” says Ryan Abood, CEO of
GourmetGiftBasktets.com
. “We had all the tools necessary and loved the challenge!” Check out our
YouTube Videos
documenting the iced coffee drama and the rest of our Guinness World Record experience.
Companies that aided in the breaking of these records include: Terracon Corporation of Boston supplied the storage tank that is the foundation of the cup, Chisel Productions Inc. of Georgia is constructed a coffee cup and handle around the tank using a sculpted foam with a hard polyurethane finish, Kerry/ X Cafe of Princeton, MA provided the 100 percent Columbian Arabica blend coffee, Logo Loc LTD of New Hampshire provided quality custom t-shirts, Marich Confectionary of California donated samples of their Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans and Bunn-O-Matic Corporation of Springfield, IL supplied the high volume coffee dispensers designed to meet the requirements of the world record attempt.
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Blog World Expo, the world's largest blogging social media conference in Las Vegas at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center, South Pacific Ballroom; Booth #335.
Americans consume 400 million cups of coffee per day, or equivalent to 146 Billion cups of coffee per year; making the United States the leading consumer of coffee in the world. Abood saw this statistic and knew a record involving coffee was one to break.
This world record attempt will require two 60 Amp 208 Volt Three Phase power supplies, two directly plumbed water lines providing 3 gallons per minute and the equivalent of 89,305 times the amount of coffee needed to brew your standard 8oz cup of coffee.
The Motto is 2,010 in 2010!
GourmetGiftBaskets.com will break the Guinness World Record for the World’s Largest Cup of Coffee when 2,010 gallons of fresh coffee will be brewed into a 8x8 foot specially constructed coffee mug, breaking the current world record of 911.5 gallons set in 2007.
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Susan G. Komen for the Cure®
Nancy G. Brinker promised her dying sister, Susan G. Komen, she would do everything in her power to end breast cancer forever. In 1982, that promise became Susan G. Komen for the Cure, which is now the world’s largest breast cancer organization and the largest source of nonprofit funds dedicated to the fight against breast cancer with more than $1.3 billion invested to date. For more information about Susan G. Komen for the Cure, breast health or breast cancer, visit
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or call 1-877 GO KOMEN.lent to 32,160 cups of fresh brewed coffee.
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