What do coffee beans from America owe to the coffee roaster in Warsaw?

What does the world owe to the Americans?

People came to the Americas from Asia via the then dry Bering Strait some 15,000 years before Columbus and coffee. Then the sea level rose and there were no further walks through it.

In 1491, Columbus discovered America for European civilisation. Not the whole continent of course, but the Caribbean at least. In any case, after Columbus, the next conquistadors had it easier and for European civilisation, America became a space for exploration. For the civilisation there at the time, no America was discovered, but it made each individual civilisation realise that there were other civilisations at all. Not necessarily on other continents, because the Incas had no idea of the existence of the Aztecs and vice versa.

In any case, this encounter with Europeans did not end well for the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. They had dropped in for a visit to the continent, however, anything earlier and their haplotype (genes inherited from their parents) did not stand up to the onslaught of new germ mutations, and it is estimated that in a relatively short period of time, some 90% indigenous peoples of the Americas died from diseases that were far less fatal for Europeans. And for the Native Americans, they proved to be a death sentence. Mutating bacteria from domesticated animals ran between Africa, Europe and Asia, so the human populations of these continents became immune to them. The Americas were cut off from this genetic exchange.

A group of people move to another continent. The water level rises, no one else comes. On the continents from which the humans came, they domesticated plants and animals as much as possible. But on the continents where they came from, there were no longer any animals that could be domesticated, even though people were still domesticating new plants. On old continents, the germs of domesticated animals mutate and pass on to humans. Pandemics kill people but immunise the remaining population. And in the Americas, no one becomes immune. That's how it worked out in a nutshell.

Fortunately, with the death of the majority of the population, America's heritage did not perish. These were thriving civilisations and without their domesticated plants we would not know the potato, corn, tomato, beans or peppers today. There would be no such classic European dishes as Belgian fries, American popcorn, Italian pizza, baked beans or Hungarian stew with peppers.

It is not only these listed agricultural products that we owe to American civilisations. There is a bit more. First and foremost, fertiliser. Guano that is. The export of this product from America revolutionised European agriculture. At first, as much of it as possible was imported from America, then it was learned to be produced in factories.

What does coffee owe to America?

But on the other hand, it has become apparent that crops that are important to Europeans are doing very well in the Americas. Bananas, rice, cotton, avocados or coffee.

These plants have been given a second life in the Americas!

And not just that they can be grown there, but also a second life in the form of new varieties and flavours.

Coffee has only benefited from the move.

New climate, humidity, altitude, soil. New flavours after all!

What American coffee beans owesit Warsaw?

And the fact that it is roasted and such freshly roasted coffee is something we can actually taste a while after roasting. Ideal for trying out American coffees is the 4 x 250g Starter Set - Story Coffee Roasters Fresh Roasted Bean Coffee https://old2.storycoffee.pl/produkt/zestaw-na-start-4-x-250g/.
What do we have there? Coffees from Brazil, Peru, Honduras and... Ethiopia, the place where coffee was originally domesticated. Nothing to do but try it! And there will be another text about the associations that the flavours of these coffees evoked in my brain, but also about the American soil.