Admittedly, it was a shepherd, who discovered the use of the coffee bean about four centuries ago, in a region of Abyssinia (Ethiopia).This shepherd drew his attention to some goats, which after eating reddish berries from an evergreen bush became very active and vivacious. This happened several times and the shepherd decided to taste these strange berries for himself. Raw berries were hard to chew, so he took some to the village. The shepherd decided to roast them to make them edible. He tasted some roast beans and his sleepy eyes got wide open. All village people liked it as it kept awake during long prayers. While experimenting with the beans, people crushed the roasted seeds into powder and poured boiling water to make a tasty drink. So, in this way the coffee grains were used to brew the delicious beverage consumed all over the world nowadays.

Firstly coffee was brought to Italy. Pope Clementine VIII requested that some coffee be brought to him so he could taste it. After smelling it, he liked the aroma so much he tasted it and then baptized coffee and pronounced it a Christian beverage. Then coffee houses appeared in Venice, London and Paris in the 16th century. They became places of political, social literary and business life.

Coffee is believed to have arrived in America in 1607. By 1668 coffee had replaced beer as New York City's favorite breakfast drink and there were coffeehouses in New York, Boston, Baltimore, Philadelphia and elsewhere. Most of these coffeehouses were more like pubs and taverns, they served not only coffee but also chocolate, ales, beers and wines and also rented rooms to sailors and travelers.

During the next centuries the popularity of coffee spread through Europe on such a large scale, that there were more coffee shops in London than today. A true coffeehouse was crowded, smelly, noisy, feisty, smoky, celebrated and condemned. People stopped nearby coffeehouses, sniffing the air of roasting beans.

Decaffeinated coffee was invented in 1903. The researchers perfected the process of removing caffeine from the beans without destroying any flavor. The coffee appeared under the brand name "Sanka" (a contraction of "sans caffeine").

There is no doubt that coffee brought revolution in man's tastes not only because of its delicious flavor and tempting aroma, but as well, because of its stimulating and sustaining effects.