The historical and cultural origin of the development of mocha coffee

Mocha is named after the famous Mocha Harbor. In the fifteenth century, East Africa was very underdeveloped in transportation, but it produced the world's most precious coffee beans, which were collected at Mocha Port in Yemen and shipped to Europe. Today, Mocha Harbor

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Mocha has been relegated inland due to the accumulation of silt, and new ports, including Mombasa and Durban, have replaced the status of Mocha Port, but the origin of Mocha coffee in Mocha Port period has still been preserved, and the coffee beans produced in these areas are still called Mocha coffee beans.

Mocha beans are so popular because of their rich taste. Red wine aromas, wild aromas, dried fruit aromas, blueberries, grapes, cinnamon, tobacco, sweet spices, logs, even chocolate. Europeans love mocha coffee and have long regarded it as an expendable luxury.

With the birth of Italian fancy coffee, people tried to add chocolate to regular coffee instead of mocha coffee, which is now often drunk fancy mocha. Italian fancy mocha coffee is made by mixing 1/3 of Italian espresso Espresso with 2/3 of hot milk and then adding chocolate ingredients. Traditional Italian fancy mocha coffee uses chocolate syrup as an ingredient, but later, due to the popularity of mocha coffee, more home-made mocha coffee uses chocolate syrup instead of chocolate powder. In addition to dark chocolate, milk chocolate can also be used as an ingredient in today's mocha coffee. Unlike cappuccino's thick milk foam, mocha tops don't have milk foam, replaced by whipped cream, and cocoa powder and cinnamon are added. Preserved fruit is also used as a garnish for mocha coffee placed on top.

Therefore, the so-called mocha coffee is actually a general term for mocha bean coffee and fancy mocha coffee. When tasting mocha coffee, you must pay attention to this point, so as not to order coffee that is not the mocha coffee in mind.

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More than 100 years ago, the entire Middle East non-coffee countries, when the outward transportation industry was not prosperous, Yemen mocha was a major export port near the Red Sea at that time, but now Africa's Mombasa port, Durban port, Beiva port... have become some of Africa's emerging coffee export ports, but at that time coffee as long as it is concentrated in Mocha port and then exported to Africa, are collectively referred to as mocha coffee.

There are many answers to this question. Some people say mocha is a certain place of origin, and some people have the impression that mocha is sweet chocolate coffee. In fact, authentic mocha coffee is only produced in Yemen, southwest of the Arabian Peninsula, growing on steep mountain sides at altitudes of 3,000 to 8,000 feet, and is the oldest coffee in the world.

The delicious coffee shipped from Mocha Port is called "Mocha Coffee", which is the origin of the name "Mocha Coffee".

At present, the coffee produced in Yemen is the best, followed by Ethiopian mocha; mocha coffee with lubrication in the acid to strong acid, sweet nature is particularly good, unique flavor, containing chocolate taste; with the temperament of a noble woman, is a very characteristic pure coffee