Coffee – The king of all beverages

Over 121 million people are employed in the industry of coffee to help to produce 400 billion cups of coffee which consumes every year. To have a productive day many starts their day with a cup coffee as it contents generally safe drugs call Caffeine. Coffee is used by mankind since centuries. But how long exactly, where did coffee come from and how did it take over the world… For most of the human history coffee itself was unknown to the world. The story begins in the late middle ages and early modern era, with a berry of a small tree in Oromia a region of Ethiopia. When exactly people found the Coffea plant and felt the stimulating effect of coffee, is known. An Ethiopian legend says, there was an Ethiopian goat herder named Kaldi who lived sometimes in the 6 th – 9 th century, he noticed one of his goats becoming energetic after eating some berries, then he tried himself and felt the same. He took a few of those berries and gave them to a monk. The monk didn’t believe it and threw them into fire nearby. The Monk was impressed by its flavour and made a cup of coffee out of those burnt coffee beans. Ethiopian coffee competes with some 60 other countries all located between the two tropics. Brazil all by itself 40% of world production, in contrast to Ethiopia they use intense of farming practice. From the producing countries, the coffee being headed to North further to the United States and Europe. Throughout human history products, industries and even society itself have gone through constant waves of significant development. The first wave is the traditional coffee drinking culture when coffee drinking started gaining popularity, especially in American and North American homes. The companies like Folgers and Maxwell House started making coffee commercial commodities. In The Second wave of coffee, a few companies wanted to change the coffee drinking phenomenon into a lifestyle, in the 1960s and 70s Starbucks was the biggest great example of it. The third wave of coffee could be considered as early as the 2000s, which was almost more of movement. It brought leaser focus to the cultivation and the bean itself, to the brewing. Each coffee packet didn’t only have its beans name, the regions, process, elevation and the roasting dates also started showing up. Few says we are in The Fourth wave of coffee, a few say, it has already waved. They say the fourth wave is the science of coffee, so much more attention to water chemistry and next-level equipment. The fourth wave was more into coffee service to the next step, where cafes were educating the customer in a non-judging way as well as bringing coffee in fine dining and pairing food with it. So now is there fifth waves or sixth waves! Or is it refining more of the previous waves and building on those? Each of the four waves we have discussed today, they are in practice. But it’s really about building on each one for its place in this global economy.?