While coffee was discovered in Ethiopia, it would be quite sometime before anybody started brewing the beverage that is so familiar to us.    Ethiopians were eating the coffee berries, and even mixing the pulp of the coffee berry with nuts and other food to make a sort of energy bar.  The leaves could even be steeped in a similar fashion to tea.  It wasn’t until coffee was introduced to Yemen that it evolved into the strong, dark brew that is so popular today.  In Yemen and Ethiopia it is still common tradition to roast your own beans, grind them by hand in a mortar, and serve up a small amount of a very strong concentrated beverage to friends and family.  In fact one of todays most popular coffee house beverages owes its name to a port city in Yemen.  The vast majority of coffee grown in Yemen left through the port of Mocca, also known as Mocha.

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