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Coffee shrubs produce white, jasmine-scented blossoms that last only days, so your morning cup comes from a flower with serious latte-tude. #AtlantaCoffeeShops #ATLMorning

Espresso's golden crema is an emulsion of oils, dissolved sugars, and tiny trapped gas bubbles forced out under pressure. That's why the foam starts fading within minutes of pulling the shot. #AtlantaCoffee #SpecialtyCoffeeATL

In Hanoi, some cafés whip egg yolks with sugar and condensed milk, then spoon the cloud-like foam over black coffee. The dessert-style drink was born when fresh milk was hard to come by. #SpecialtyCoffeeATL #AtlantaLife

Most coffee cherries hold a pair of seeds pressed flat sides together. Sometimes only one seed develops, growing round and solid into a peaberry that farmers and roasters often sort out and sell on its own. #AtlantaCoffee #ATLFoodie

Sufi mystics in Yemen reportedly sipped coffee to stay awake through long nights of devotional prayer, and the habit helped carry the drink beyond their monasteries. #AtlantaCoffee #SpecialtyCoffeeATL

The Chemex carafe wears a wooden collar tied with leather, and its thick paper filters trap more oils than metal mesh does, giving a cleaner, lighter-bodied cup. #ATLFoodie #AtlantaLife

The word mocha comes from Mocha, a Yemeni port on the Red Sea that once shipped huge quantities of coffee to distant markets. Today the name lives on in chocolate-flavored drinks far from that harbor. #ATLEats #AtlantaCoffee

At an Ethiopian coffee ceremony, green beans are roasted in a pan right at the table, so the room fills with aroma before anyone takes a sip. The ritual can stretch into a long visit with friends. #AtlantaCoffeeShops #ATLFoodie

Green coffee beans are pale green and smell like fresh hay or grass. Roasting turns them brown as sugars and amino acids react under heat, creating the aromas we associate with coffee. #ATLcoffee #AtlantaCoffeeShops

In Naples, customers can pay for an extra coffee in advance, leaving a "caffè sospeso," or suspended coffee, that anyone who can't afford one may claim by asking if one is waiting. #ATLMorning #ATLFoodie

Coffee fruit doesn't have to be tossed out. In Yemen, dried cascara, the husk of the cherry, is steeped into a fruity, sweet tea called qishr. #SpecialtyCoffeeATL #ATLcoffee

Nearly all of the world's coffee descends from a small group of plants carried out of Yemen, which European botanists grew in greenhouses before colonial planters took them to new lands. #AtlantaLife #AtlantaCoffeeShops

Some of the world's most expensive coffee begins in the digestive tract of civets, which eat ripe cherries and pass the beans out whole. Producers then collect, wash, roast, and brew what remains. #DiscoverATL #AtlantaLife

Coffeehouses were so politically suspicious that Ottoman authorities repeatedly tried to shut them down in Constantinople. Sultan Murad IV was among the rulers who banned the drink, yet the cafés kept reopening. #AtlantaCoffeeShops #AtlantaLife

A siphon coffee maker has no pump. Heat pushes water up into the top chamber, and when the flame goes out, the cooling bottom chamber creates a vacuum that pulls the brew back down through the grounds. #ATLcoffee #AtlantaCoffee

Java, the slang word for coffee, is named after the Indonesian island where Dutch colonists built large coffee plantations. Every cup you order carries the name of a place that was reshaped by colonial trade. #ATLEats #AtlantaCoffee

Coffee beans are really seeds tucked inside a cherry, so every morning cup is a little pit stop of pure bean-spiration. #ATLcoffee #ATLMorning

Brazil grows more coffee than any other country, so when it comes to bragging rights, it clearly has the strongest grounds. #ATLEats #CoffeeInAtlanta

Robusta beans pack more caffeine than arabica, so if you need a real jolt, that tougher bean is a little more brew-tal. #CoffeeInAtlanta #AtlantaCoffeeShops

Kola nuts from West Africa contain caffeine too, and they once gave early cola drinks their signature kick. Coffee, tea, cacao, and kola each evolved their own ways of producing this bitter compound. #ATLcoffee #SpecialtyCoffeeATL