What are Flavored Coffees?
Today, coffee comes in many flavors: Irish crme, hazelnut, southern pecan, chocolate. All of these flavored coffees can be bought as whole beans at any local grocery store or coffee specialty store. The most popular coffee flavors have roots in tradition. Rather than being something newly invented for modern taste buds, they are variations on older themes. Some might think that the addition of flavor to coffee is a recent invention . In fact, it dates back to when coffee began to be drunk as a beverage. The Arabs used to add spices to coffee while they brewed it. And Europeans of the seventeenth century, in their love of all things chocolate, combined chocolate with coffee. There are long traditions of adding alcohol to coffee. This notion led to the most popular of coffee flavors: hazelnut. The association of hazelnut with coffee came about from the mixing of Frangelico, a traditional Italian hazelnut-flavored liqueur, with coffee. Irish coffee, the mixing of Irish whiskey with coffee
