Best Coffee Story You Never Knew!

Описание: The history of coffee would be incomplete if we don’t talk about war.

There have been many ways to prepare coffee on the battlefield. During the Civil War, the Sharps Carbine Rifle had a unique coffee grinder embedded in its buttstock. Throughout World War One, American soldiers in trenches brewed coffee in their socks. Instant coffee became an instant success during World War Two. And during the Vietnam War, some soldiers used C4 explosives as a heat source to boil water for their coffee.

On December 16, 1773, American colonists dumped 342 crates of imported British tea into the Boston Harbor to protest "taxation without representation." The Boston Tea Party, as it became known, led to a boycott of tea and a surge in coffee consumption. In the years leading up to the American Revolution, drinking coffee rather than tea, was a middle finger salute to the British throne.

Coffeehouses in the American colonies were the Starbucks of 1776, located on every corner of Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City. These establishments became important meeting places for revolutionaries, where they debated ideas, shared information, and planned their actions. John Adams noted that “the debates and deliberations in Congress are impenetrable secrets; but the chat of the coffeehouse, are free and open…”

Thanks for Bill Speer, military historian, for viewing our script and final video.

00:01 Coffee Intro
01:34 Boston Tea Party
02:06 Revolutionary War
02:51 George Washington-Coffee Drinker
03:12 Civil War
03:31 “Essence of Coffee”
04:04 Liberia saves the Union Cause
05:42 Coffee Grinder built into Carbine
06:38 Instant Coffee Popularity
07:22 World War One and “Cup of George”
07:51 “Cup of Joe” nickname
08:31 WW 2 Coffee – Morale in Liquid Form
09:27 Caffe Americano
10:13 Vietnam War - heat coffee with C4
11:41 Birth of Starbucks and Mr. Coffee
12:16 Closing