You might think that Irish Coffee is a centuries-old drink, enjoyed by many generations of Irish folk around a hot fire at home or at the pub. But truth be told, it originated in the era around World War II during the dawn of transatlantic plane travel, from 1939 to 1945, when air travelers from America took an 18-hour seaplane (known as a “flying boat”) to Port of Foynes in County Limerick, Ireland. Passengers took a boat from the seaplane to the terminal—the seaplane base preceded the construction of Shannon Airport. By 1942, a restaurant had been established to welcome the travelers, which by then included such luminaries as Humphrey Bogart, Douglas Fairbanks, Edward G. Robinson, Ernest Hemingway and Eleanor Roosevelt.
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The Beginning of: Toraja Coffee
The existence of Toraja coffee as one of the world’s major coffee, not separated from the long history of this magic bean. The practice of coffee drinking began more than a thousand years ago in Ethiopia. According to legend, a shepherd trying to eat the coffee cherries once observed that his goats do not sleep when they ate the fruit that grows wild.
The Beginning of: Luwak Coffee
Kopi Luwak or Civet coffee is coffee that come from Indonesia. Initially, coffee cultivation experiments carried out by the Dutch at various locations in Indonesia. Coffee plants can grow well and the yields are also good in there. At the past time, Indonesia was the Dutch colony and coffee is a marketable commodity of Europe. In that time, coffee is a obligatory for Indonesian farmers plant.
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