Why are mocha coffee beans, mocha pots, and mocha coffee all called mocha? Is the coffee extracted from the mocha pot mocha coffee?

I believe that friends are no longer unfamiliar with the name "mocha", because in the coffee circle, products named after it can be said to be common. For example, "mocha coffee beans", "mocha coffee", or "mocha pot".

This can not help but wonder, all called "mocha", what kind of connection is there between them? If you take it literally, it is inevitable that everyone will think that they are all related to the place of "Mocha". For example, Blue Mountain Coffee is called Blue Mountain Coffee because it comes from the Blue Mountains of Jamaica. If we apply this principle to mocha-related products, we will understand that mocha coffee beans are coffee beans made from mocha, and mocha pots are coffee utensils invented by mocha.

Obviously, this is not the right answer. Because mocha neither produces coffee beans nor is it the birthplace of mocha pots. But this does not mean that these items have nothing to do with the place of Mocha. Today in front of the street to share with you, why mocha coffee beans, mocha coffee, mocha pot, are all called mocha!

First of all, we need to have a brief understanding of Mocha. Mocha is a port city on the Red Sea coast in southern Yemen. In the past, it was a very important transportation hub, and its status was no less than that of Shanghai Port today. Because it is the only waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, all merchant ships that need to trade from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean, Europe and other places must pass through this checkpoint.

In addition, the port of Mocha is also the earliest coffee trade distribution center and the largest international coffee trade center. For more than 300 years from the 15th century to the early 18th century, most of the world's coffee was exported from the port of Mocha. We can see the importance of coffee to them from the national emblem of Yemen. The famous mocha coffee beans are named after the port of Mocha.

Mocha coffee beans although mocha does not produce coffee beans, the main source of coffee it exports is grown (not all) in the central part of its country, Yemen. It is worth mentioning that Yemen is the first country to grow coffee on a large scale as an agricultural product. Then, after being exported to all parts of the world through the port of Mocha, the coffee has been well received because of its unique chocolate flavor. But at that time, the traceable information of coffee only came from the port of Mocha, so people at that time simply called the coffee (beans) exported from the port of Mocha "mocha coffee (beans)".

With the popularity of coffee in Europe, coffee exported through the port of Mocha was sold under the name "mocha coffee". And this also has something to do with the policy at that time, all coffee sacks exported through the port of Mocha will be printed with the word "Mocha", which further deepens people's impression of mocha coffee. So we can know that the original "mocha coffee" refers to coffee beans exported by mocha (more often mocha beans grown in Yemen with chocolate flavor). But because of the surge in global demand for coffee, colonial trading companies such as the Netherlands, France and the British East India Company smuggled coffee out of Yemen through various channels and planted it on a large scale. Yemen is losing its monopoly on coffee as smuggled coffee varieties blossom and bear fruit in other countries.

Because of the low price of coffee in other countries, but also because of the Ottoman Empire and other reasons, the market share of mocha coffee is gradually shrinking, which leads to a gradual decline in the production and export of mocha coffee. In just a few centuries, Yemen has fallen from the world's only coffee overlord to a negligible share of the market. By the early 19th century, coffee production in Yemen had shrunk to less than 6% of the world's total; today, it doesn't even have 0.1%, and mocha beans have officially become precious coffee beans.

Mocha coffee and now we refer to "mocha coffee" more refers to the Italian concentrated and milk as the basis, and then added chocolate products made of Italian milk coffee (can be simply understood as a latte with chocolate).

Some people say that this is a specially prepared product to reproduce the flavor of chocolate in mocha coffee beans, which is not completely unbelievable. After all, it is not hard to imagine that there are fewer and fewer mocha beans flowing into European countries as Yemen loses its monopoly on coffee. Those who have always had a deep love for mocha coffee (beans) are likely to come up with such an idea and implement it in order to recreate the delicacy of the past when they can no longer drink mocha coffee with a strong chocolate flavor. What's more, the status of mocha coffee (beans) in people's hearts at that time was like the Blue Mountains of the last century and the rosy summer of this century. Therefore, it is not ruled out that in order to reflect the style, a drink with a flavor similar to mocha coffee beans is specially prepared, and it is called "mocha coffee".

So we can know that today's "mocha coffee" more refers to the Italian coffee system, the addition of milk and chocolate products specially prepared coffee drinks.

The mocha pot is finally the mocha pot! Mocha teapot believes that you are the most familiar members of these three "mochas". After all, Qianjie shares it with a relatively high frequency, and it is also the latest of the three "mochas".

Moka pot is a coffee extraction tool invented by Alfonso Bialetti in Italy at the beginning of the 20th century (1933). Because it has the same pressurized extraction as the Italian coffee machine, it can also produce black coffee with a relatively higher concentration. With its innovative design, people-friendly price and high affinity with the local culture, the mocha pot became popular as soon as it was launched and quickly became popular in Italy. But you have to ask what it has to do with mocha. It doesn't really matter.

The most common explanation for why the mocha pot was named mocha pot was that the name "mocha" was tied to coffee at that time. The front street said that coffee was very popular when it first entered Europe, but because Europeans only knew that coffee was imported from the port of Mocha, they called it "mocha coffee". At that time, the words mocha and coffee had already been linked, and when it came to mocha, people immediately thought of coffee. So named after mocha, it can be translated as "coffee pot". Another theory is that mocha coffee is famous for its rich taste, so Don Biloti used mocha to name the coffee pot in order to immediately remind people that it is a coffee utensil that can extract rich coffee.

So, that's why three different products are named "mocha". I don't know if it's the same as everyone guessed.

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