Ethiopia Harrar Single Origin Coffee Beans

According to Ethiopian folklore, Coffee was first discovered when Kaldi, a famous goatherder, noticed his goats became filled with energy after chewing on red berries in a bush. After tasting the berries himself and becoming flush with excitement, he showed them to a Sufi priest, searching for an explanation. The priest, unable to determine how the beans worked, attributed the effects to sorcery and banned their consumption. He threw them into a large fire, from which a now familiar aroma flowed. Kaldi, still determined to understand how the magical berries worked, gathered the overdone beans and tried chewing them. Turned off by the bitter taste, he tried dissolving them in water heated by a small fire-- brewing the world's first cup of coffee! Although there is evidence that coffee was likely drank before Kaldi's infamous goats tried them, this tale lives on, and Kaldi has become integral to coffee mythology.   Ethiopia, considered by most to be the birthplace of coffee, is where co