I am of the opinion, that there are good single origin coffees and there are good blends ( Burrhus's Breakfast Blend being one of them). This movement has made latte art, single origin coffee, and innovative methods of brewing coffee extremely popular. Single origin coffee is a part of the "Third Wave" coffee movement that began in the late nineties, which focuses on quality coffee, curating it as you would a fine cheese or wine. There are many different opinions surrounding single origin coffee vs blends, but the overall benefit to single origin coffee is that you know where the coffee came from as opposed to a blend which can have multiple coffee beans from multiple geographical regions. Single origin coffee is generally named for the one geographic region or specific farm that the coffee cherries were harvested. Revived in the Victorian era and run by the Temperance Movement, coffeehouses were set up as alternatives to public houses where the working classes could meet and socialise.Single origin coffee has quite the buzz surrounding it in the coffee world. They gave way to, and largely influenced, the exclusive gentleman’s club of the late 18th century. However the coffee house fell out of favour towards the end of the 18th century as the new fashion for tea replaced coffee. Lloyd’s of London had its origins in Lloyds Coffee House on Lombard Street, run by Edward Lloyd, where merchants, shippers and underwriters of ship insurance met to do business.īy 1739, there were over 550 coffeehouses in London. Auctions in salesrooms attached to coffee houses were the beginnings of the great auction houses of Sotheby’s and Christies. The London Stock Exchange had its beginnings in Jonathan’s Coffee House in 1698 where gentlemen met to set stock and commodity prices. Several great British institutions can trace their roots back to these humble coffeehouses. So much so that in 1675 an attempt to ban them was made by Charles II, which caused such a public outcry that it was withdrawn. However not all coffeehouses hosted such highbrow clientele: some were haunts for criminals, scoundrels and pimps.Īnyone of any social class could frequent the coffeehouses, and so they became associated with equality and republicanism. Influential patrons included Samuel Pepys, John Dryden, Alexander Pope and Isaac Newton. Polite conversation led to reasoned and sober debate on matters of politics, science, literature and poetry, commerce and religion, so much so that London coffeehouses became known as ‘penny universities’, as that was the price of a cup of coffee. Papers and pamphlets littered the tables in an 18th century coffee house Each coffeehouse had a particular clientele, usually defined by occupation, interest or attitude, such as Tories and Whigs, traders and merchants, poets and authors, and men of fashion and leisure. Unlike public houses, no alcohol was served and women were excluded. The new coffeehouses became fashionable places for the chattering classes to meet, conduct business, gossip, exchange ideas and debate the news of the day. In London, the first one was opened later that same year in at St Michael’s Alley, Cornhill, by an eccentric Greek named Pasqua Roseé. The first coffeehouse in England was opened in Oxford in 1652. Whilst the taste of 17th century coffee was not very palatable – indeed, it tasted quite disgusting according to accounts of the time – the caffeine in it and the ‘buzz’ it provided, proved quite addictive. In 17th and 18th century England, coffeehouses were also popular places for people from all walks of life to go and meet, chat, gossip and have fun, whilst enjoying the latest fashion, a drink newly arrived in Europe from Turkey – coffee. Talk of coffeehouses today, and we think of those chains of cafes run by companies such as Costa Coffee, Starbucks and Cafe Nero, serving a wide range of teas, coffees, smoothies and snacks.
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