Coffee Facts

• The name coffee comes from the Arabic word qahwah, meaning wine, and not from the town of Kaffa, in Ethiopia (A byssinia), as many writers have supposed.
• There are twenty-four steps in the "Coffee Process".
• Our knowledge of coffee is about 1,000 years old.
• Coffee was first mentioned in literature by Rhazes, an Arabian physician.
• The use of coffee as a beverage is about 700 years old.
• The most severe punishment for drinking coffee was being sewn into a leather bag and tossed alive into the sea.
• Pope Clement VIII was the first to baptize coffee and make it a true Christian beverage.
• "Coffee Smellers" were discharged wounded soldiers employed as spies to "smell out" unlicensed coffee roasting during the coffee monopoly in Germany.
• Goats actually discovered the coffee plant. Their shepherd noticed that they were getting very hyper; therefore, one day, he followed their every move, and found out that they were eating a strange berry that was keeping them awake all day and night.