What civilization/country invented drinking coffee?

The coffee we enjoy today owes much to many countries and cultures and it would be disingenuous to narrow it's invention down to just one. Here is how each country and culture in the evolution of the coffee drink, contributed significant firsts to bring about this 'elixir of the gods' that we all enjoy so much today. read more

Turkey - (First coffee drink made with roasted beans and served from coffee houses) Coffee drinking had made its way to Turkey by the 1200s, and it was here that coffee became a drink made from roasted beans rather than the previous concoction made from unroasted beans. read more

The earliest substantiated evidence of either coffee drinking or knowledge of the coffee tree is from the 15th century, in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. By the 16th century, it had reached the rest of the Middle East, South India , Persia, Turkey, Horn of Africa, and northern Africa. read more