The Origin of American Coffee

Unfortunately, there are few records of the life history of the Dresden daughter who invented the coffee filter in the local archives in Germany. But this great invention soon became a household name and eventually became a must in German kitchens. In the mid-1920s, orders poured in and the business of making Merita coffee filter cups expanded sharply, but the original family company could no longer accommodate 100000 orders for filters, including ceramic filters, and the company moved to Mingdeng in 1929. Today, Melita is still run by the grandsons of the founder. Melita now has more than 3200 employees in 50 branches around the world. Melita's hand filter cup has long been improved in the direction of automation, and after countless improvements, Melita has finally achieved great success in the United States. that is, the most popular American coffee automatic filter machine we see now. But if you take apart an American coffee machine, the principle of the bubble invented by Mrs. Melita has barely changed, only to optimize the shape of the filter and filter paper.

It can be said that there is an enduring coffee feeling in the bones of the Saxon people. Bach, a world-famous composer and chief musician of Thomas Church in Leipzig, wrote Coffee Cantata. The elector of Saxony and the king of Poland, the strong Auguste, admired the fine porcelain of brewing coffee and tea, and he set up Europe's first porcelain handicraft factory in Meissen (Dresden). In Leipzig, Coffe Baum, which opened in the early 19th century, is one of the oldest cafes in the world and is still open today. In Saxon, the words "Bliemchengaffe" and "Blu ü mchenkaffee" are used to describe very light drinks. Most of these low-concentration drinks are mixed with too much water, so light that you can see the pattern at the bottom of Meissen porcelain filled with coffee.

Today, 51% of German families own a classic filter paper drip coffee automaton, and 6% of them often use Melita's early follicle cups to brew a mellow German coffee by hand.

In the modern and fast-paced information society, it is undeniable that this kind of pure manual follicle coffee which was made 100 years ago has become less and less in Germany and Europe, but this ancient way of brewing coffee has miraculously taken root and blossomed in the oriental land. especially in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and inland, especially since the Japanese began in the 1950s. Almost obsessed with Melita filter cup, various kinds of coffee filter cup apparatus of follicle type and drip filter type emerge one after another, and a whole set of theory and operation technology of hand-made filter coffee has been established, which is loved by more and more people. It really answers the proverb "the west is not bright and the east is bright".