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Can you imagine your day without a cup of coffee? If not, welcome to the world of coffeeholics! Those, who love drinking coffee, those who consider preparing coffee everyday ritual, those who fully enjoy each sip and feel satisfied with awesome taste, aroma and pleasure it gives. Espresso, latté, arabic coffee, caffé lungo or filtered coffee? Which would you like to have? As I am coffeeholic, who loves to drink coffee twice a day, I decided to come up with this topic and do some research here on EC.

No doubt coffee has been here for ages but do you know, who discovered this special, energetic affect of caffeine? You might find it funny but in 9th century AD Ethiopian shephards found out that their goats were "dancing" after eating coffee burries. Later a local monk decided to make a cup of those coffee burries and to his surprise he couldn't sleep at night. Poor monk, hope he didn't make it too strong and didn't die of heart attack! Another interesting thing is that in the past coffee was even banned and not just once! Mekka, Italy, Constantinopole, Sweden and Prussia (nowadays Germany) – places all around the world and some people simply didn't consider coffee good enough! However, nowadays we can enjoy it without fear everywhere but... wait, wait… not everytime! I came across one fact - according to some scientists we should drink coffee between 9:30am and 11:30am. As for me, I drink my first coffee usually at 8am or 8:30 am at work and I have no idea, if I would be able to wait till 9:30 am to take my cup of coffee. Yeah, coffee addicts simply can't wait! :D

By the way, do you know what some names of coffee stand for? No? So check this out ;-)

Espresso – it means "forced out" – if you have espresso machine, you may know the way espresso is being prepared, it is literally forced out - I mean warm watter is forced out under the pressure through ground coffee, by the way original espresso is just a cup of 25 ml coffee!

Capuchino – in fact a cup of capuchino looks like a dress that Capuchin monks were wearing. I guess, it is because of the cap of this costume, which can remind some people of a cap made of milk. Otherwise, I have no idea, what is similar here :-D

Latté – in Italian latté means milk, so if you would go to the store and asked for latté, they would give you just milk. That is why, it is called Caffé Latté - coffe with steamed milk

Caffé Lungo – this is what I enjoy, it is bigger espresso because original espresso is too strong for somebody like me and I would drink it in few seconds and then would die :-D I want to enjoy drinking coffee and spend some time with my love (coffee)

Turkish Coffee – in fact, this is not a kind of coffee but a special method of preparing unfiltered coffee, which is used in many Arabic countries. In every country it is called differently – Syrian Coffee, Greek coffee, Bosnian coffee etc. However, it came originally from Yemen as the Turkish soultan fell in love with this coffee there and spread it then to Turkey…

Instant Coffee – time to time I also enjoy my Nescafé, even though I know it is not that healthy as it is instant coffee and as for quality I bet many coffee experts would slap me for drinking something like this. But…. it is not that expensive, you prepare it fast and easy and that is the point :-)

Let me ask you...Would you like to drink the most expensive coffee in the world? If yes - then be ready with 600 dollars in your pocket…what for? Well, these coffee beans are very special and expensive because they are excreted by Sumatraean wild cat!!! Another very expensive coffee is made of beans you can come across in dung of Thai Elephants. Bon apetit, guys! :-D And now something for our EC cats a cat lovers :-) In Japan and Korea exist CAT COFFEES, where you can hang out with the cats, while drinking coffee! :-D

Sooo..which coffee is your favorite and when do you drink it?

Pictures were taken from: http://homesthetics.net/coffee-table-plans/ and Pinterest.