Best coffee shop hunters club

A couple of decades ago began the era of here and now, where enjoyment and the balance between free time and work started to take importance for a better quality of life. Therefore, we tend to take into account the details that accompany our spare time. The place, food, drinks and the people around us are everything. Today I will talk about a special drink: coffee.

Coffee is a family meal, an afternoon with friends, a rest during a job, during studies, a long drive, a date. It is part of stories, laughter, sorrows, nerves. Therefore, coffee has become the second most consumed beverage after, guess what? Water. It all started when, from Ethiopia, coffee was introduced to Yemen in the 15th century, where they began to roast and process the seeds in a similar way to how it is done today. In the sixteenth century, coffee culture spread to the Middle East, Persia, Turkey, and northern Africa. The first European country that started drinking coffee was Italy, and from Venice, it was introduced to the rest of the countries.

Many of us started drinking coffee in our years as students. It supposedly served to keep us awake at exam times, but to a great extent also to socialize and flee from the torture of memorizing huge amounts of notes. During the four years that lasted my career I learned many things, among others that coffee is useless unless you are mentally rested and that any theory such as "if you drink it you can study all night before the test" can become a lie as big as the fail of the next day. Its active ingredient, caffeine, is a psychoactive that has helped keep many minds awake and partly the hectic society in which we live is the reason for its success.

However, most sophisticated palates have been able to appreciate the differences between several types of coffee and that is where the baristas were born. They are people or magical beings who with a portafilter as an extension of their arm, make art with coffee. They are always near the espresso machine of the local and they manage to bring the cup of coffee to overflow without any spillage, challenging the forces of hydrogen bonds.

During my stay in Aberdeen I have had the opportunity to taste coffees from many coffeehouses. However, the most wonderful seems to me Kilau. This cafe is located in the heart of the University of Aberdeen, on the street called High Street. Upon entering you feel the human warmth, partly because the staff radiates energy and also because of the number of diverse people who step on that place. From students, professors, and other university staff, to policemen who park their patrol car on the Kilau sidewalk to get their well-deserved coffee. The characteristic of this cafe is that the milk is treated in such a way that it feels denser on the palate. On the other hand, the amount of coffee they add is fair, so no sip is too bitter. And to finish showing my love for Kilau, mention the white chocolate brownie with berries they cook. Beware that it can be as dangerous as an addiction that leads to perdition in every bite.

With all this, just tell you that if you live in Aberdeen or have the opportunity to visit it, you can not miss the majestic buildings of the University of Aberdeen that are in Old Aberdeen and take advantage to enter Kilau if only to browse through. By the way, if someone knows a barista course or wants to comment something they have lived or seen, feel welcomed.

Until then, good weekend!