Brief History of Coffee

A BRIEF HISTORY OF COFFEE IN THE WORLD

Scientific name: Coffea Arabica

The term refers to the coffee seed of a tree called coffee, and also the infusion prepared with it. The plant originally comes from Ethiopia where he went to Arabia to the thirteenth century. There was consumed in infusion of leaves or seeds after fermentation. The roasting process is more recent: the first drink, as we know now, the Arabs instituted in the early sixteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, a fungus wiped out all African tropical plantations. He had to be used to plant new varieties resistant.

FEATURES:

? Tree up to 8 feet tall, white flowers, very fragrant, which grow in large groups on the branches, with short petioles. It is characteristic in a coffee flowering the flowers of the same generation are opened at once, so that from one day to another, you can go from one plantation to another totally green white. The fruit is a drupe (fleshy seed casing) the size and color of a cherry, and in each there are two coffee beans. The first flowers appear in the third year of life, but does not begin until the seventh to be profitable to produce coffee, which is very high for three or four years to begin to decline until 20 or 30 years.

LOCATION:

Originally from? Africa, is cultivated in tropical regions worldwide. Just live at temperatures between 10 and 25 degrees Celsius. The African species is preferred for the production of coffee, however, in Brazil, for example, has introduced the species Coffea released, and in Mauritius, which has been dubbed Coffea mauritiana. It requires deep, permeable soils, such as several areas of Brazil, which provide some of the best coffees in the world, even to move to the mythical "moka" Arabic.

ACTIVE:

The basic component of coffee is caffeine, which represents approximately 2% of the seed. It also contains sugar, cellulose, fats and tannins. With very little change roasting grain composition. Heat destroys sugars, oxidized fats and brings up a core, cafeona, which gives the tea its characteristic aroma.

Medicinal properties:

Coffee stimulates circulation, respiration and nervous system and raises blood pressure slightly. Reduces fatigue, facilitates psychic. It is very useful in recovering from alcohol poisoning.

COLLECTION:

It is done in dry weather, taking the ripe fruits one by one. In some plantations are expected to fall from the tree and collected soil

USES:

Is used in infusion, from dry beans, roasted and ground, with many variations in the way of preparing it.

Authorities in the art and history scholars agree that the coffee plant is native to? Africa. It is considered that it was the Arabs who took her out of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) and taken to Yemen through the port of Mocha (Mocha) Saudi (Asia) through the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden where he cultivated about the year 575 AD

The species most widely grown coffee in the world is the Coffea arabica L. This species has been found growing spontaneously in the high plateaus in the Ethiopian region of Lake Tana. There are also other commercial coffee species whose discovery is more recent and have been observed in the wild at various points? Tropical Africa .

Café de Colombia. It is a mild coffee (also called "Soft Colombia" which includes not only coffee from Colombia, also in Ecuador, Kenya and Tanzania, which are Arab washes.

Tarrazu Coffee from Costa Rica. Of the famous Tarrazu valley in the mountains San Jose, La Minita.

Café Huehuetenango in Guatemala. It is grown from 5,000 feet altitude in the northern region.

Ethiopian Harrar coffee from Ethiopia.

Yirgacheffe Coffee Ethiopian Yirga City chef, in the Sidamo (in Oromia).

Hawaiian Kona Coffee is grown on the slopes of Hualalai in Kona on the Big Island of Hawaii.

Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee region of Jamaica Blue Mountain. My popular and with a high market price.

Java Cafe Java Island, Indonesia.

Kenya AA Coffee Kenya. The "AA" a taste "acid."

Mandheling and Lintong Coffee Sumatra, Mandheling, Indonesia.

Celebes Toraja Coffee Kalossi grows at high altitudes on the island of Celebes in the Malay archipelago in Indonesia.

Café Mocha coffee Yemen. Not to be confused with coffee and cacao.

Peaberry Coffee grows in Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.

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