International Coffee Day offer
Author: AMT Serwis
International Coffee Day falls today, 29 September. To mark the occasion, AMT Serwis is celebrating together with our customers — and not just for one day, but for a whole week.
If you book a coffee machine repair or service with us between 29.09.22 and 06.10.22, you can take advantage of our Coffee Day promotion and buy aromatic Tupinamba coffee beans from Spain at just 50% of the price.
International Coffee Day 2022
The coffee trade celebrates International Coffee Day on 1 October in 73 countries around the world. In Poland (and in a few other countries) Coffee Day is marked as early as 29 September — and at AMT Serwis we celebrate all week. To mark the occasion, we will help you take care of everything you need to celebrate Coffee Day properly: a machine in good working order, and excellent coffee beans at a promotional price.
The Coffee Day promotion at AMT Serwis
This year, to mark International Coffee Day, our customers get a 50% discount on Tupinamba coffee beans. To qualify, all you need to do is book a coffee machine repair or service with AMT Serwis between 29.09.22 and 06.10.22. When you collect your appliance, you will be able to buy 1 kg of Tupinamba coffee beans from Spain at just 50% of the regular price.
Take care of your coffee machine and claim your discount on Tupinamba coffee — request a free repair quote, or book a repair online straight away.
The history of coffee in a single bean
Coffee is one of the most popular drinks in the world. Researchers estimate that more than two billion cups are drunk every day — and the story began almost two thousand years ago in Ethiopia. It is from that country, home to the descendants of the Queen of Sheba and King Solomon, that the coffee cherry comes; there it was originally eaten with butter and salt. Legend has it that the first coffee drink was brewed in the 9th century, when shepherds noticed that their goats became more active after eating certain red berries. They decided to gather the fruit and boil it into something resembling a compote — and ended up with an intensely flavoured brew that gave them energy.
The method of roasting coffee and preparing a drink close to the one we enjoy today was most likely discovered in 13th-century Yemen, from where it spread quickly across the Arabian Peninsula. Coffee reached Europe at the end of the 16th century. At first, because of where it came from, it was not popular. That changed thanks to Pope Clement VIII, who declared that it was not the work of the devil.
In 1615, Venetian merchants brought coffee to western Europe, which it began to conquer with its aroma, taste and stimulating effect. In Poland, the tradition of drinking coffee goes back more than three hundred years. The first recorded encounter with coffee by a Pole, the poet Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, took place in Malta in 1643. Having tried it, he noted that it was a hideous drink, unworthy of a Christian palate and not unlike poison to consume. Despite that verdict, coffee grew steadily more popular in Poland. Jerzy Franciszek Kulczycki also played his part: he rendered considerable service at the Battle of Vienna on 12 September 1683. After the victory of Hetman Jan III Sobieski (later King of Poland), a great deal of property and supplies was left behind by the routed Ottoman army — including several hundred sacks of coffee, which the Poles took for camel feed. Kulczycki, who had spent time in Turkey, knew exactly what he was looking at: fresh, green coffee beans. He asked the hetman to give him the coffee, and Sobieski agreed. That is how the first true coffee house in the Austrian capital came about, under the name "The Blue Bottle", whose owner, Jerzy Kulczycki, became the champion of coffee drinking in this part of Europe. At first the house served black coffee brewed in a pot, still known today as "Turkish coffee". In time, responding to customers' wishes, it began serving sweetened and milky coffee as well.
In Poland, the first coffee houses opened in Gdańsk at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. By the 18th century coffee was already a widely known drink. In 1890 there were more than 100 coffee houses in Warsaw. They were nicknamed "penny universities", because for a penny (the price of a cup of coffee) you could learn about anything. Over countless hours, people exchanged experience, opinions and knowledge.
Since the 20th century nobody roasts coffee at home any more — it is available as a finished product in bean, ground or instant form, and the ever-growing demand has made it the second most valuable traded commodity in the world.