The Coffee History

Have you ever wonder where the coffee you just drank came from? How did the wonderous drink become so famous and can make so many people enchanted by it?

Coffee beans throughout the centuries

Lots of people think about a cup of coffee as a friend and some even think of it like a shoulder to lean on on tough days. This dark colored bean has many secrets which we as the secret admirer of its fruits have yet to explore. Did you know that coffee bean was first venerated for its medicinal properties? And it was also brewed for some religious purposes like a meditation for example. Since then it has come a very long way from its homeland.

Coffee originated from berry producing trees discovered in the Middle East. The small berries themselves looked like a small cherries, red and look tasty. The berries are very sweet and edible. Each contains two locules where inside it enclosed the beans which is the money crop. Coffee trees cannot stand snow or extremely cold weather and that is why it is mostly found on tropical regions where there is ample sun and rain.

For some the coffee tree were treated like tea. The fruits, flowers and leaves were boiled in water which give it great taste and flavor. Then the Arabs innovated upon the idea of making drinking coffee by first drying the coffee bean and roast them..

The coffee bean journey continues

The history of coffee continued when a Moslem brought some coffee beans from an Arabian farm and brought them to his home in India. There he planted the each of the coffee beans one by one, made them flourish and latter on supplying one-third of India's coffee produce.

Word spread from Arabia to India about the deliciously enchanting and aromatic drink called coffee. Soon the French and the Dutch became enchanted with the coffee bean too. In their crave to produce the newly found brew the French brought coffee to Dijon, a region in France, where regrettably the coffee could not adapt to it’s cold weather and so the whole crop was dumped. The Dutch however was a little bit smarter. They planted the coffee seeds in the tropical island of Java where it thrived and became a reliable cash crop.

Even the famous King Louie XIV was captivated by coffee and had a tree shipped to Paris and built a greenhouse particularly for the splendid tree. That same coffee tree is the ancient grandmother of the trees now found in the Central and South America.

Even though there are 50 types of coffee trees in the world only three are acknowledged to produce the best coffee bean in the world and one of them is arabica