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What do you drink your coffee with? March 22nd is World Water Day

In the middle of endless discussions about the quality of water, the coffee world considers increasingly the water hardness. This is crucial when making any cup of coffee or tea. However, when it comes to water, there is much more to discuss,

/ March 22, 2011 / 2 Comments

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What do you drink your coffee with? March 22nd is World Water Day

In the middle of endless discussions about the quality of water, the coffee world considers increasingly the water hardness. This is crucial when making any cup of coffee or tea. However, when it comes to water, there is much more to discuss,

/ March 22, 2011 / 2 Comments

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Towards the end of the thirdteenth century the idea of infusing herbal plants to substract their active ingredients reached European soil. The intention was to heal, for which reason only apothecaries and monasteries were responsible for this new science and only alchemists had access to the needed information. It was with the colonial age that sugar came into the picture and with it new possibilities, so that towards the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the use of liqeuers was pretty much established for their pleasure value, appreciated for their aroma or their effect. Its importance as remedie diminished in the society. Then came coffee and dozens of firms developt their own coffee liqueur recipies. This is a sample of my third one.