A World Shortage of Coffee is Imminent and How the HELL are We Going To Get Through January?

​It's happening, guys. The beginning of the end. Because recent reports have suggested that we might soon be facing a world shortage of coffee and we've just had to down three double espressos to process the news.

The Foreign Agricultural Servic​e have got our backs, and have produced a new global coffee production report so we can assess exactly what on earth is going on. And basically, it's not ideal news.

Because Brazil, being the world's largest producer of coffee (it makes about 50 million bags a year, which is more than double what Vietnam, the next most highly producing company, churns out) is suffering a drought. And it's having a potentially very worrying effect on our ongoing ability to order a flat white every morning from Pret.

So far, we're down about five million bags of coffee. That's a lifetime supply of coffee for, like, a ​lot ​of people. It's not okay.

Weirdly though, there seems to be some kind of coffee-specialising guardian angel watching over us and our worldwide coffee bean growth, because miraculously Honduras, Indonesia and Vietnam are currently experiencing ideal weather for the coffee bean crops, which is quite unusual. And it means at the moment, they're picking up the slack from Brazil's drought.

But we're not kidding ourselves here. We know this luck can't go on forever. So as long as Brazil's drought continues, we're in the danger zone. Quick, drink all the coffee while you can, or you might be left having to work out an entirely different way to get your brain to function every morning.

I'm tired just thinking about it.

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