Coffee beans at Christmas

Christmas is a special time. It is, of course, a truism and a cliché, a worn-out phrase with which corporations justify the galloping commercialisation of this very Christmas. But clichés are clichés by virtue of being simply obvious and true, only overused. And so it is in this case. What has coffee beans with Christmas? Read on!

Coffee beans for Christmas will ensure special moments

Coffee is an integral part of Christmas celebrations all over virtually the world. It is an Icelandic Christmas tradition to drink coffee flavoured with winter spices (cloves, cinnamon, ginger), or 'Jólaglögg'. Greenlanders (staying around the Arctic Circle) at Christmas, get together for what is known as kaffemik. They feast in numerous groups copiously drinking coffee with equally copiously served Christmas specialities. These include marzipan cakes, apple tarts and seal or reindeer dishes, not to forget fish soup and blinis stuffed with roe.

In Sweden, one sips coffee, specially baked for the occasion, with Vetebröd. It is a sweet yeasty bread with cinnamon and sultanas, but by virtue of being eaten exclusively with coffee, it is simply called coffee bread, or Kaffebröd. The French drink their perfectly brewed coffee at Christmas to an exquisite and sweet Yule roll. The Italians, with their family, sip their sweet yeasty panettone bread with Caffè Corretto, or espresso further enhanced with a drip of grappa or liqueur.

The Americans serve Egg Nog Latte, which is a creamy coffee with eggs, milk and nutmeg. In Brazil, the festive ritual is cafézinho, which is a sweet little coffee accompanied by rabanadas, slices of fried bread sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon. In Mexico at Christmas it is, of course, spicy. Café de Olla is a spicy coffee, enriched with cinnamon and cane sugar, served with tamales, sweets steamed in corn husks.

And in Ecuador, the Christmas tree is a leafless coffee bush, colourfully adorned with hand-decorated ornaments. Just like in Poland!

Coffee beans for Christmas in Poland

Christmas is a time that, between "the peak of the Rozsypaniec and the mouth of the Swina River" (copyright Krzysztof Ligęza) are most often spent with family. Christmas Eve supper and gift-giving are only the beginning in Poland. On the next two days of Christmas, either we visit our relatives or our relatives visit us. And during such a visit, it is impossible not to have a good cup of coffee served with all kinds of cakes. We are accompanied by coffee beans for espresso, coffee to filter, as well as those specifics that stand a little further away from good quality coffee.

You don't choose your coffee when you're a guest, but after all, it's a perfectly valid idea to give a loved one a packet of good coffee as a gift. And let it really be something special, flavoursome, preferably roasted locally. W the shop of artisanal roaster Story Coffee Roasters you will easily find unique Christmas blends as well as the equipment and gadgets to make good coffee properly. It's a shame to waste time in the crowds at the market, as I described years ago in the rhyme below.

Original Christmas greetings

Christmas?

City streets like a techno-club

stroboscopically flashing lights.

And it angers me, and I don't like it.

What does this have to do with Christmas?

Thick bearded, crassly dressed,

are lurking around every corner

I don't want to at all, for fuck's sake!

I can't listen to "Ho, ho, ho!" any longer.

Bells are ringing, belles are jingling.

Christmas trees in the shop more than in the forest.

Snowflakes in caps prancing around.

And I'm off, it makes me want to howl.

Do we celebrate that God is born

that we buy more at the market?

Is that what this is all about?

Where are you going, mongrel world?

Because although I don't believe in God at all,

I believe very strongly in tradition.

I'll conclude with this,

straight from the heart and quite frankly,

That this crib makes me feel hungry,

and I feel like eating a hamburger.

Perhaps in a local what's so fashionable?

Of this Rudolf, well, reindeer.

Coffee wishes from the Story Coffee Roasters team

So with the whole team Story Coffee Roasters We wish you a very merry and family-orientated Christmas. Lovely presents and lots of festive flavours, accompanied, of course, by the aroma of a well-brewed coffee beans.

Author: Igor Maćkowski