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Introduction

Coffee is a beverage brewed from roasted ground coffee beans. Dark-colored and bitter, coffee has a stimulating effect on humans due to its caffeine content; however decaffeinated coffee is also commercially available. There are also various coffee substitutes.

Coffee production begins when the seeds from coffee cherries, the Coffea plant's fruits, are separated to produce unroasted green coffee beans. The "beans" are roasted and then ground into fine particles. Coffee is brewed from the ground roasted beans, which are typically steeped in hot water before being filtered out. It is usually served hot, although chilled or iced coffee is common. Coffee can be prepared and presented in a variety of ways, e.g., espresso, French press, caffè latte, or already-brewed canned coffee. Sugar, sugar substitutes, milk, and cream are often added and change the flavor.

Though coffee has become a global commodity, it has a history tied to food traditions around the Red Sea. The earliest reports of coffee drinking pertain to the plant's use among the Sufis of Yemen in southern Arabia in the middle of the 15th century. Up to the end of the 17th century, most of the world's coffee was imported from Yemen. As it gained in popularity, coffee started to be cultivated in Java in the 17th century and the Americas from the 18th century. (Full article...)

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Karlsbad coffee maker by SPM/Walküre (form 599/0 without rills), consisting of coffee pot, double-layered conical cross-slit filter made from through-glazed porcelain (here broken), water spreader and lid

A variant of the category of French drip coffee pots is the group of so-called Bohemian coffee pots, manual zero-bypass flat bottom coffee makers made out of porcelain only, including Karlsbad coffee makers (1878), Bayreuth coffee makers (2007), the Walküre cup filter (2010) and the Walküre aroma-pot (2015). In contrast to French drip coffee pots, they all use a special double-layered conically cross-slit strainer made from through-glazed porcelain as well as a water spreader with six (or, in the larger models, more) large round holes to ensure an even water distribution and reduce the agitation of the coffee bed, a method sometimes also called cake filtration. In particular before World War I, but still up to the advent of the Espresso machine in the 1950s, they were very popular in the Viennese coffee house culture. The special kind of drip coffee they produce is called a Karlsbader ('Karlsbad coffee'). In Vienna, the Kleiner Schwarzer (confusingly also called Mokka or Piccolo), a black coffee without milk or sugar, was often prepared in Karlsbad coffee makers as well, hence they were sometimes incorrectly also called Vienna coffee-making machines. Once manufactured by many porcelain manufacturers, demand gradually dropped and eventually production stopped when electrical coffee makers became more and more common, so that Karlsbad coffee makers were only available on the used market for a couple of decades. However, experiencing a renaissance since about the millennium as part of the so-called third-wave of coffee one manufacturer restarted production of them. They are also used in restaurants and by connoisseurs, coffee sommeliers, coffee roasters and in coffee tasting laboratories. (Full article...)

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Image 1A traditional aluminium pod (left) and a paper pod (right) compared (from Nespresso)
Image 2Dutch coffee-roasting machine, c. 1920 (from Coffee preparation)
Image 3Caffe Reggio on MacDougal Street in Manhattan, founded in 1927 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 4The word for coffee in various European languages (from Coffeehouse)
Image 5A North American enjoying his coffee to go, even though he's in Europe (from Coffee culture)
Image 6Single serve Vietnamese drip filter (from Coffee preparation)
Image 7Coffee house culture between Vienna and Trieste: the coffee, the newspaper, the glass of water and the marble tabletop (from History of coffee)
Image 8Central European Habsburg coffee house culture: news, coffee, the glass of water and the marble table top (2004) (from Coffee culture)
Image 9Pope Clement VIII, who popularised coffee in Europe among Christians (from History of coffee)
Image 10Centre Place, Melbourne. Australia and New Zealand have competing claims to being the birthplace of the "flat white". (from Coffeehouse)
Image 11The port city Mocha in Yemen 1692. (from History of coffee)
Image 12Monsooned Malabar arabica, compared with green Yirgachefe beans from Ethiopia (from History of coffee)
Image 13A pair of Nespresso Magimix M100 machines (from Nespresso)
Image 14Home espresso machine without pump (only with steam pressure) (from Coffee preparation)
Image 15Caffè Florian in Venice (from Coffeehouse)
Image 16A Viennese café (from Coffeehouse)
Image 17Interior of an espresso bar in Baliwag, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 18Café Ekberg in Helsinki in 2024 (from Coffeehouse)
Image 19A coffee bearer, from the Ottoman quarters in Cairo (1857) (from Coffee culture)
Image 20Various grinders for coffee and spices (from Coffee preparation)
Image 21Evening Café Culture in Aix-en-Provence (from Coffee culture)
Image 22Freshly harvested coffee cherries (from Coffea)
Image 23A coffee can from the first half of the 20th century. From the Museo del Objeto del Objeto collection. (from History of coffee)
Image 24Palestinian women grinding coffee beans (from Coffeehouse)
Image 25A Nespresso store in Lugano, Switzerland (from Nespresso)
Image 26An English café at the close of the 17th century: men hang their hats on pegs and sit at long communal tables strewn with papers and writing implements. Coffee pots are ranged at an open fire, with a hanging cauldron of boiling water. The only woman present is separated in a canopied booth, from which she serves coffee in tall cups. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 27The Café de Flore on the Rive Gauche in Paris is one of the oldest coffeehouses in the city. Its famous clientele included writers and philosophers. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 28Café Tortoni is a café in Buenos Aires frequented by Jorge Luis Borges among other public figures. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 29Moka 2 Cup Coffee Fountain (from Coffee preparation)
Image 30The Coffee Bearer by John Frederick Lewis (1857) (from History of coffee)
Image 31Drip coffee maker (from Coffee preparation)
Image 32Coffeehouses often sell pastries or other food items. (from Coffeehouse)
Image 33Coffee plantation (from History of coffee)
Image 34Les Deux Magots in Paris, once a famous haunt of French intellectuals (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 35A coffee shop at a library in Melbourne (2006) (from Coffee culture)
Image 36Nespresso paper pods (from Nespresso)
Image 37Coffeepot (cafetière "campanienne"), part of a service, 1836, hard-paste porcelain, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 38A coffeehouse stand in Angeles City, Philippines (from Coffeehouse)
Image 39Nespresso machine containing professional-grade Nespresso pods, incompatible with the regular capsules (from Nespresso)
Image 40A cup of coffee with cheesecake at a cafe in Helsinki, Finland (from Coffee culture)
Image 41In a pour-over, the water passes through the coffee grounds, gaining soluble compounds to form coffee. Insoluble compounds remain within the coffee filter. (from Coffee preparation)
Image 42Coffea fruits, Bali (from Coffea)
Image 43A coffeehouse in Damascus (2003) (from Coffee culture)
Image 44A Starbucks coffee shop in Knoxville, Tennessee with a drive-through (from Coffeehouse)
Image 45Syrian Bedouin from a beehive village near Aleppo, Syria, sipping the traditional murra (bitter) coffee, 1930 (from History of coffee)
Image 46Statue of Fernando Pessoa by Lagoa Henriques, next to the A Brasileira café, in Chiado, Lisbon (from Coffeehouse)
Image 47Coffeepot, by French silversmith François-Thomas Germain, 1757, silver with ebony handle, Metropolitan Museum of Art (from History of coffee)
Image 48A VertuoLine machine and capsules (from Nespresso)
Image 49Moka pot (from Coffee preparation)
Image 50Home espresso machine with pump (from Coffee preparation)

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Espresso and tonic (Japan, 2023)

Espresso and tonic or espresso tonic is a non-alcoholic mixed drink made by mixing espresso and tonic water. First recorded in 2007, the drink became popular in Scandinavia before spreading to North America, Japan, and around the world. The key ingredients are espresso and tonic water, but other flavourings may be added. (Full article...)

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Carajillo

A Carajillo is a Spanish drink combining coffee with brandy, whisky, anís, or rum.

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Coffee production by region
Top 20 producers (2014)	Brazil Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Ethiopia Guatemala Honduras India Indonesia Java Ivory Coast Mexico Nicaragua Papua New Guinea Peru Tanzania Thailand Uganda Vietnam
Other cultivators	Angola Bolivia China Cameroon Cuba Democratic Republic of the Congo Guadeloupe Guam Haiti Jamaica Kenya Laos Martinique Panama Paraguay Philippines Puerto Rico Sri Lanka Timor-Leste United States (Hawaii) Venezuela
Lists	List of countries by coffee production List of countries by coffee exports

Coffee in Italy
Roasters	illy Lavazza Massimo Zanetti Beverage Group Caffè Pascucci Caffè del Doge Guglielmo Caffè
Historical Coffeehouses	Antico Caffè Greco Caffè Bardi Caffè-Pasticceria Cova Caffè Florian Caffè Giubbe Rosse Caffè Lavena Caffè Michelangiolo Caffè Quadri Caffè San Marco Caffè Fiorio Caffè Gambrinus Gran Caffè Doney Palazzina Majani, Bologna Pedrocchi Café Antico Caffè Spinnato
People	Alfonso Bialetti Francesco Illy Luigi Bezzera Luigi Lavazza Angelo Moriondo
Technology	Bialetti Caffitaly Cimbali FrancisFrancis De'Longhi Elektra Faema Gaggia La Marzocco La Pavoni Lelit Rancilio Saeco Smeg
Drinks	Affogato Barbajada Bicerin Bombardino Caffè corretto Caffè crema Caffè macchiato Espressino Espresso Lungo Ristretto Doppio Latte macchiato Marocchino Mocaccino Shakerato Gassosa al caffè Moretta
Other	Barista Caffè sospeso Easy Serving Espresso Pod Espresso machine IperEspresso ISSpresso Lavazza A Modo Mio Moka pot Neapolitan flip coffee pot