Friday, July 13, 2012

Coffee was discoverd by goats?!

Whoever drink coffee, they should have felt comfortable or calm from coffee which is an one of major effect of coffee. However, almost no one who have coffee have never heared about the history. I am the one of them and I didn't know that coffee was discovered by goats. Sheepherders found that the goats discoved coffee trees and  they tried to boil and drank them. Then they felt confortable from them. That is said that the coffee has started as drink.


(from livescience.com "Ten things know about coffee")

Native only to parts of subtropical Africa, the stimulating effects of wild coffee beans are said to have been first discovered in about A.D. 800 by an Ethiopian shepherd named Kaldi, whose goats kept him up at nights after feasting on red coffee berries.
The shepherd shared his find with the abbott at a local monastery, where monks first brewed the beans into a hot drink, reveling in the way it kept them awake during long hours of prayer.
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3 comments:

  1. UnknownJuly 14, 2012 at 3:27 AM

    I love all these little facts you guys put up. It makes it very interesting. I would have never guessed coffee was discovered by goats.

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  2. UnknownJuly 16, 2012 at 10:26 PM

    I totally agree with Lyna, thanks for sharing such an interesting fact. I would have never guessed! I'm not a big coffee drinker, but the shepherd's need for the coffee does make sense.

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  3. UnknownJuly 20, 2012 at 3:04 PM

    what a surprising news. This is the first time in my life knowing that coffee was found by goats. That makes me falling love with coffee more by understand its history.

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