In 1657, King Karl X Gustaf sent the politician Claes Rålamb to Constantinople for various negotiations with the Sultan. That trip did not go so well, but Claes Rålamb may have been the first Swede to have tried coffee in connection with that trip, describing the drink in a book as follows: “Where coffee is …
What is coffee? Coffee is the kernel of cherry-like fruits that grow on flowering plants, the plant species is called Coffea and the two species we mainly use for coffee are Coffea arabica which accounts for about 70% of the world’s production and Coffea Canephora (also known as robusta) which accounts for the remaining about …
Pour over, filter coffee, drip coffee, hand brewed… Well, there are many names for more or less the same brewing principle that has been embraced by the specialty coffee world in recent years: pouring hot water on coffee that is in a filter. Pour Over, also called hand brewed, drip coffee, etc., is not a …
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Design from 1852 by the two Frenchmen Mayer and Delforge. First patent 1929 by Attilio Calimani, a Milanese designer. Patented in 1958 by the Swiss Faliero Bondanini and started to be produced and distributed in France. The French Press is one of the most popular and well-known brewing methods. Most people who brew ground coffee …
