A basic introduction to mocha coffee

The name Mocha Coffee comes from Mocha, a small town on the Red Sea in Yemen. This place monopolized the export of coffee in the 15th century, which had a particular impact on the coffee trade sold to the Arabian Peninsula. Mocha is also a "chocolate-colored" coffee bean (from Yemeni mocha), which makes people associate coffee with chocolate and develop chocolate espresso drinks. In Europe, "mocha coffee" may refer either to this drink or simply to coffee made from mocha beans, which gets its name from the famous port of Mocha. Transportation in East Africa was very underdeveloped in the 15th century, but it produced the world's most precious coffee beans, which were gathered in the Yemeni port of Mocha and shipped to Europe. Today, the port of Mocha has retreated inland due to the accumulation of mud, while emerging ports, including Mombasa, Durban and other ports, have replaced the port of Mocha, but the origin of mocha coffee has remained during the period of the port of Mocha. the coffee beans produced in these areas are still called mocha coffee beans.

Mocha beans are so popular because of their rich taste. Aromas of red wine, wild game, dried fruit, blueberries, grapes, cinnamon, tobacco, sweet spices, log, and even chocolate. Europeans like mocha coffee very much and have always regarded it as a consumptive luxury.

With the birth of Italian fancy coffee, people try to add chocolate to ordinary coffee instead of mocha, which is the fancy mocha that people can drink now. Italian fancy mocha coffee, by mixing Italian espresso Espresso from 1 to 3, hot milk from 2 to 3, and then adding chocolate. The traditional Italian fancy mocha uses chocolate syrup as the raw material, and because mocha is so popular that more home-made mochas are replaced by chocolate powder. In addition to dark chocolate, milk chocolate can also be used as one of the ingredients in today's mocha coffee. Unlike cappuccino's thick milk foam, mocha has no milk foam at the top and is replaced by whipped cream with cocoa powder and cinnamon. Candied fruit is also used as an ornament for mocha coffee on top. [3]

Mocha Coffee

Therefore, the so-called mocha coffee is actually the general name of mocha bean coffee and fancy mocha coffee. Tasters must pay attention to this when tasting mocha coffee, lest the coffee ordered is not the mocha coffee in mind.

Mocha Coffee

More than a hundred years ago, the whole coffee country in Central and East Africa, the outward transportation industry was not prosperous at that time. Mocha in Yemen was a major export port near the Red Sea at that time, but now it is the ports of Mombasa, Durban and Beiva in Africa. All of them have become some emerging coffee export ports in Africa, but at that time, as long as the coffee was concentrated in the port of Mocha and then exported to Africa, it was collectively called mocha coffee.

There are many answers to this question. Some people say that mocha is a certain place of origin, and some people remember that mocha is sweet chocolate coffee. In fact, authentic mocha coffee is only produced in the Republic of Yemen in the southwest of the Arabian Peninsula and grows on steep hillsides at elevations of 3,000 to 8,000 feet. It is also the oldest coffee in the world.