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 Coffee has been traced back in history to as early as the 9th century in Ethiopia. The legend is known as ‘the legend of the dancing sheep’, Shepard’s witnessed their herds eating the berries and observing an increase in energy in the animals where they seemed to apparently dance! They then brought the berries to local monks who began producing a type of stew with the beans. It wasn’t until the 10th century that the roasting of the beans as we do today is first recorded in Persia.
It was first introduced to England in the 16th century and the first coffee house opened. Its popularity grew quickly and by 1675 there were more than 3,000 coffee houses in England with the strange implementation of a ban of women!
Coffee itself is now a widely used legal stimulant in the form of a drink that is now one of the most popular beverages in the world. The coffee beans are ground and brewed to create the beverage. The brewing process has evolved to different methods of boiled, steeped or pressurised. The machines we commonly see use gravity to drop hot water onto the ground beans and the liquid steep through and then filter and drip into a pot. Also common is the French Press where the ground coffee is put into a coffee press (also known as a cafetiere), allowed to brew and then a plunger is pressed to separate the liquid from the ground beans. The espresso method uses pressurised hot (not boiling) water and is forced through the ground beans, this produces a much more concentrated form of beverage. The use of drying has allowed the development of instant coffee, removing the need of any machine other than a kettle for hot water in order to produce the drink.
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