Coffee in Vienna

Vienna-lattes and music are floating in the air

Vienna was attacked by the Turkish army for the second time in 1683. The then Emperor Augustus I of Vienna had an offensive and defensive alliance with King Augustus II of Poland. As soon as the Poles heard the news, the Polish army would arrive quickly. But the question is, who will break through the siege of the Turks to send letters to the Poles? Kochsky, a Viennese who had traveled in Turkey, volunteered to deceive the besieged Turkish army in fluent Turkish, crossed the Danube and moved to Poland. Although the Ottoman army was brave and good at fighting, it retreated hastily under the attack of the Polish and Viennese armies, leaving behind a large number of military supplies outside the city. Among them are 500 bags of coffee beans-coffee beans that the Muslim world has controlled for centuries and refused to flow out so easily reached the Viennese.

But the Viennese did not know what it was or what it was used for. Only Kochsky knows that this is a magical drink. So he asked for the 500 bags of coffee beans as a reward for his breakthrough. Kochsky, who got the coffee beans, used the trophies to open the first coffee shop in Vienna, Blue bottle. But at first, the business of the cafe was not good. The reason is that people in the Christian world do not like to drink coffee grounds as Muslims do, and they are not used to using black and bitter coffee as a drink. So the clever Kochsky changed the recipe, filtering out the coffee grounds and adding a lot of milk-this is the original version of the latte that is common on cafe MENU today.

Before the cafe, Vienna, like other European countries, had many pubs. They drank beer like the Germans, and it was intoxicating, so the Viennese soon became loyal supporters of the cafe.

The Central Cafe, located in the city center, is one of the most famous cafes in Vienna, where poets, artists, playwrights, musicians and diplomats used to meet. He hosted many masters of that year, such as Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Strauss. There are many such cafes in Vienna, and almost every old cafe can be associated with celebrities, so the Viennese cafe has become another place for tourists to visit and worship after Paris.

However, the coffee in the Viennese cafe is not as simple as the French. Viennese really like coffee. There are so many colors about coffee that 40 or 50 kinds of coffee can be listed on the MENU of almost every cafe.