Austria Travel Tour

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Sample A Cup Of The Supreme Viennese Coffees

If you are in Vienna, and you would wish to have a cup of coffee, in no way order just coffee. In Vienna, only tourists do that since the true Viennese coffee connoisseur orders in particular coffee mixed with other drinks like the following types:

VIENNESE KAFFEE 101

Schwarzer or Mokka which is brought together alone with cream.

Mokka gespritzt or Doppelmokka which is pure coffee mixed with brandy. This particular mixture is certain to calm your nerves!

Verlaengerter which is a diluted kind of mokka, or coffee with a large amount of water.

Einspaenner which is the double mokka for those who decide for their coffee exceptionally creamy.

Tuerkischer which is the strained version kind of the typical mokka.

Brauner or the schwarzer coffee sample that is mixed with milk.

Gold which does not refer to the expensive metal since this is brauner with lots of milk.

Melange which is a cup of pure coffee with bubbly milk and rich, creamy chocolate.

Fiaker, which is my personal Viennese coffee choice: A perfect blend of cherry brandy and powdered sugar heated, double Espresso with toppings of cream, cherry on top.

Maria Theresia which is mokka put in with orange-liqueur, powdered sugar, cream, and colored cubes of sugar.

Pharisaeer which is again double mokka with cream, cinnamon, lemon, sugar, cacao-powder, and heated up rum.

Coffee master or not, it is recommended that one be knowledgeable on the different kaffee specialties of Austria. After all, Viennese coffeehouse tradition goes as far back as 1683, and getting to know the different Viennese kaffee versions may prove useful if ever you find yourself in Austria one of these days.

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