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In this era of boutique coffee, when it comes to brewing props, when it comes to most coffee reference books, there are no more than all kinds of hand pots, filter cups, siphon pots, mocha pots, and so on, and in the end, people always put "Turkish pots." but it's often just a few words. As a matter of fact, the coffee culture in early Taiwan was deeply influenced by Japan, and hand-brewing and siphon have long been common, especially because of its convenience and the efforts of the local coffee industry to participate in the extraction of high-quality coffee. It shows that the "craftsmanship" of brewing coffee may be copied and quantified, but "artificial" is indeed an existence that is difficult to replace, and the Turkish pot cooking in the book can be said to be the prototype of handmade coffee! In the first three or four hundred years when the French filtered coffee with cloth, they maintained the tradition of brewing coffee in handmade pots. Can it be explained in a few words?

Looking back at the development of coffee, it is not too much to say that Turkish coffee accounts for about 2/3 of coffee history. Before the Turks began to boil roasted beans in small pots, Arabs had been using a large pot called Dallah, like a big-billed bird, to cook extremely light-roasted green coffee. The Arabs put the water and coffee into a large pot, boil it on a charcoal fire, then simmer it out of the fire and stuffy it with bean curd and rose water. And other compound spices, this is Qawha (meaning Arabian wine), which was drunk by the early Sufi sect to help lift spirits during night prayers. It was not until 1517, when the Etoman Empire captured Cairo and Yemen, that coffee officially entered the life of the Etomans, and by 1554 Istanbul had its first coffee shop. The Turks modified the Arab pot, using a small long-handle pot called Cezve (called Ibrik in Greece), which, as usual, threw water and coffee into the pot and cooked it over charcoal fire. Slightly different from the early Arabs, they were drinking "original" coffee from Yemen and unseasoned. As we now know, coffee needs to be roasted to release more flavor, which was probably first discovered by the Turks. Later, the Dutch managed to smuggle coffee trees back home, and coffee was able to enter Western society. Siphon coffee was invented in 1841, and Italian machine and filter paper coffee were born one after another. The traditional pot cooking, which has occupied coffee for such a long history, was also listed as a world intangible cultural heritage in 2013.

Usually when talking about Turkish coffee, people's first impressions often rest on the strong bitter taste and the pleasure of using powder to make coffee divination after drinking coffee. Besides, it is difficult to delve into its taste. However, it is true that not every old school can be turned into a classic. After the great increase in coffee demand, Turks who used to drink Yamen beans turned to Brazil to buy low-cost coffee that is more in line with commercial needs. The time and space background of fine coffee put forward in 1974 is to make a distinction between coffee quality and commercial coffee, in order to achieve better economic benefits, and thus begin to extend to the source. It includes the topics of producing area flavor, variety preservation, farmers' and producers' rights and interests and so on. Under this inevitable trend, the usual old-school pot cooking in Central Asia, West Asia, North Africa, and Eastern Europe has gradually become a foreign culture, and most tourists always struggle with the rough powder taste, the deep baking bitterness, and the truth that is too sweet, so it is difficult to have the opportunity to further appreciate the essence of ancient methods. If you want to make Turkish coffee at home, the English recipes you can find online are more or less the same as using Turkish commercial coffee powder, adding sugar, and then remember "boiling three!" Times! However, those who like the original taste of pure coffee cannot appreciate the commercial, over-extracted (boiling three times) to bitter taste, and even the pre-ground coffee powder has a good chance of going away. So it seems that coffee divination and all kinds of stories have become the most worthwhile parts of old-school pot cooking. In fact, many people may not know that the early Turkish coffee was not roasted at all. You see, the so-called French and Italian deep roasting is a later thing, and the bitter impression is not entirely due to Turkish coffee, but more likely to come from the common taste formed by the early cooking habits that do not require much coffee flavor.

However, from the point of view of inheriting and continuing its substantive value, local young coffee practitioners do not want their traditional culture to convey pure feelings, but also to be able to convince people with taste. Therefore, since the European Fine Coffee Association (SCAE, now merged into SCA) prepared for the first WCIC (World Cezve/Ibrik Championship) Turkish Pot Championship in 2008, we can see that the preparation process is already based on the extraction science of coffee, not only using Rosa varieties of high-quality coffee, but also using fresh grinding, not excessive stirring, controlling the extraction time, etc., to brew a cup of boutique coffee with a clear flavor and a smoother taste.