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The Japanese tinkered with garlic coffee without bad breath.

Published: 2026-08-04 Author: World Gafei

Last Updated: 2026/08/04, The exchange of professional baristas follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) people have long loved coffee, from ordinary coffee to exotic coffee, a series of cat shit coffee, like shit coffee, and now there is a grand debut of garlic coffee. Yes, you read it right, that is, some people never eat garlic, and some people eat garlic with bad breath. Garlic coffee

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People's love of coffee has a long history, from ordinary coffee to exotic coffee, a series of cat shit, like shit coffee endless, and now there is another coffee grand debut-garlic coffee. Yes, you read it right, that is, some people never eat garlic, and some people eat garlic with bad breath.

Garlic coffee was invented by a 74-year-old Japanese grandfather, Yokitomo Shimotai. He used to be a coffee shop owner in Aomori Prefecture, the northernmost part of Honshu Island, Japan. Since the introduction of garlic coffee in early January this year, the response has been very strong.

The idea comes from a failed cooking. More than 30 years ago, Shimotai accidentally burnt garlic and steak while cooking steak for his guest. although the dish had to be recooked, he did not pour it directly into the dustbin because he was attracted by the smell of burnt garlic. So Shimotai began a series of new dishes. He mashed the garlic, then added hot water, mixed it and let it sit for a while. Then, unexpectedly, he picked up the cup and drank it.

Yokitomo Shimotai

Oddly enough, this dark dish is not as unbearable as I thought. Instead, it tastes like coffee.

Shimotai did not study this, he continued to open his own point, cooking for the guests, but he wrote down the idea.

Finally, when the old man retired, he awakened the taste that had been hidden in his heart for a long time and began to systematically study the garlic drink that tasted like coffee, trying to develop a formula. It took him about five years to develop a drink formula that satisfied him through constant trial and error and failure. In addition, he applied for a patent in 2015 and opened his own studio in Iwate prefecture.

"my garlic coffee may be the first in the world. It has no caffeine or garlic flavor, and it is the perfect choice for people who want to drink coffee in the middle of the night but are worried about not sleeping, and for pregnant women who want to drink coffee."

Garlic coffee

Now see the garlic coffee packaging, the powder is mashed from garlic cloves. Bake the garlic in an electric oven until the outer skin is all black, then bake the inside to amber at a low temperature, and finally cool and grind it into powder.

"because garlic has been roasted for a long time, the original smell of garlic disappears, so people don't have to worry about bad breath," Shimotai explained. "in addition, burnt garlic tastes closer to the taste of coffee."

At present, garlic coffee is only available in two stores in Aomori County, and the price of each packet is 19 yuan. Shimotai didn't expect garlic coffee to be so popular. He said he would continue to make new kinds of coffee if physical conditions permit.

Please give me a cup of garlic coffee with sugar and milk.

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