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Not so! the monks found Kalbi鈥檚 claim to be ridiculous and threw the berries into the fire. After a few minutes roasting, the monks were overwhelmed by a delicious aroma coming from the beans. They tried to preserve the smell by grinding the beans and mixing them with water. On drinking the resulting beverage, the monks were stunned to find that after several cups of kavvh Cheap Clayton Keller Shirt , they could keep praying and meditating for much longer. Coffee was subsequently adopted as a popular drink with Muslims as they were forbidden to drink alcohol, but strong boiled coffee beans were an acceptable substitute! There are references to coffee in Ethiopia and Yemen as early as the 8th Century where beans were ground up and mixed with ghee and used as an 鈥榚nergy bar鈥?originally. This has subsequently evolved as a beverage. There are two main types of coffee, coffee Robusta and coffee Arabica. 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There are so many different types of coffee to experience now, thanks to our ancestors and their experiments. The most popular is still the traditional Italian espresso which is literally ground coffee beans with the same amount of boiling water shot through it under pressure. This can be transformed into the milkyfrothy concoctions that we love, but most coffee puritans prefer the flavour of the coffee in a straight up espresso鈥︹€︹€nlike the American G.I.鈥檚 who were stationed in Italy during WW2. They had never tasted anything like proper espresso, only being used to wishy washy drip-through or filter coffee. They therefore demanded their espressos be topped up with hot water, thus inventing the Caffe Americano. In America Cheap Oliver Ekman-Larsson Jersey , the espresso is often called the Caffe Italiano! Since then, coffee culture has taken the western world by storm, and designer coffee shops have sprung up everywhere, a good thing for us coffee-loving Brits who no longer have to cross the channel to Europe for a decent cup! Why not sit and savour your delicious cup of fresh coffee; feel the sun on your face and imagine the coffee bushes absorbing the sun鈥檚 warmth to ripen the fruits; see the picker collecting the berries; picture the beans being collected from the berries and then roasted, bagged up and sent by boat to their final destination. Think of the bush being planted by a hard-working Ethiopian farmer 鈥?would he have been thinking of you, the consumer Cheap Derek Stepan Jersey , enjoying a cup of his beautiful coffee? He ultimately planted it with you in mind, you are his livelihood. Then smell that delicious aroma, sit and savour the taste of the coffee, it will hopefully energise you for your day as it did the monks and the goats! 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