Turkish coffee

Under mocha or Turkish - Arabian coffee is defined as a coffee that is produced on original style by pouring water into a tank filled with dust finely ground coffee powder jug ( Ibrik ) in the sand bed in the glow of a fireplace or on a hot cooking plate. It is the most primitive type of coffee preparation. Therefore, before the invention of filter coffee at any coffee was a mocha coffee. Characteristic for the mocha is the miteingeschenkte when pouring into coffee cup set.

The name derives from the Mocha Yemeni port city of al - Mucha ( Mocha ) on the Red Sea, from where the originally from Ethiopia coffee variety of Coffea arabica was shipped all over the world. Since 2013 include the preparation of mocha and Turkish coffee culture to the intangible Unesco World Heritage Site. Greek and Turkish Coffee are identical since the Greeks have taken over the preparation of Mocha coffee during the Ottoman occupation of the Turks.

In Austria we simply understood as a mocha black coffee without sugar and milk.

Arab, Turkish and Balkan folk and Mocha

The Arabian Mocha is usually seasoned with cardamom and unsweetened served very hot. In addition to cardamom and cinnamon or cloves are popular as a spice for coffee.

In contrast, the Turkish Mocha is always sweetened and often flavored with rose water. There are steps with az Sekerli, orta Sekerli and tam Sekerli ( little sweetened, mittelsüß and very sweet). The same applies to the Greek Mocha (range: skétos - unsweetened, olígi me - little sweetened, Demetrios - mittelsüß, glykos - sweet and varýglykos - strong and very sweet). However, the Greeks spice coffee almost never (rarely is a little ouzo or mastic liqueur added ). The mocha, which is drunk in the former Yugoslavia (usually called Turska Kafa ), is also unseasoned and is drunk with little to no sugar.

With this preparation, a coffee is probably the oldest known Kaffeezubereitungsart. Originally, however, the jug was not directly heated ( hot plate, gas flame), but placed in a hot bed of sand on a fire pit slowly to boiling temperature; an old preparation method, which in Greece for several years a comeback ( with specially prepared electric plates with sand bed ) experiences. Also in the city of Istanbul experiencing this tradition of preparation is currently making a comeback: As part of the expansion of Turkish coffee houses and cafes is increasingly resorted to the old way. This is done not only for nostalgic and aesthetic reasons. The Turkish coffee is heated very gently in this way and thus experiences a perfect unfolding of its aroma.

The long-handled jug for preparing a mocha is called Ibrik (Greek Briki, μπρίκι ), depending on the language and country Cezve also called ( Serbo-Croatian: džezva ). In the picture a fairly simple stainless steel Ibrik be seen with plastic handle. Bad steel can affect the taste. True to style a Ibrik from both durable tin-plated copper or brass is made. Usually on the bottom of Ibrik a number stamped indicating for which number of cups it is intended.

The coffee for a mocha preferably comes from the vineyards of Ethiopia and Yemen, but it can readily be used also other coffee as long as it was ground to fine dust. This dust- fine coffee is sold in the Balkans as " Minas Kafa " or " Minas kava ".

Viennese mocha

In the Viennese coffeehouse tradition refers to a mocha (also Black ) a black coffee without sugar and milk. Originally such coffee was filtered in an S eihkanne ( Carlsbad pot ). Today, he comes from the espresso machine. So who ordered a mocha in Vienna, gets a little black dress.

Mocha and chocolate

The flavor of the coffee beans of the Mocha slightly reminiscent of chocolate, although it no cocoa is included. In post-war Germany, the term was often used for sweet products with coffee and cocoa taste like mocha ice cream, mocha chocolate or mocha milkshakes, now more fashionable names such as macchiato latte for usually used. In the U.S. and UK, in German-speaking countries in coffee vending machines or coffee house chains on the American model, called the Mocha coffee with cocoa or chocolate, usually it also contains milk or cream.