Coffee

Quinn remains focused while working on the case of the Merrymead Menace in the Amberlight cafe, while his favorite barista delivers coffee to his table.

Coffee is a dark brown drink with a typically bitter flavor brewed by pouring boiling water on crushed and roasted coffee beans. The beans tend to grow only in hotter climates but are traded around Golarion. The drink is mildly stimulating, and especially strong brews can temporarily relieve fatigue. Coffee is a common drink in the morning or afternoon, can aid digestion when drank after a meal, and is often drunk with additives like lavender and rose water.

While coffee can be brewed with little more than ground beans, a heat source, water, and a pot, a specialized coffee pot can brew the beverage by heating water in a chamber that, once boiling, sends it through a tube to saturate the grounds.

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It makes you smarter. Helps you think faster.

— Eleukas of Otari, to a goblin trying coffee for the first time.

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On Golarion

In the Inner Sea region

Laria Longroad, proprietor of Kintargo's Long Roads Coffeehouse.

See also: Category:Coffee houses

Coffee houses serve brews across the Inner Sea region, from Korvosa to Kintargo and Absalom to Zimar.

Coffee is a mainstay across class and culture, from the laborers of the small town of Otari to the upper echelons of the Taldan Senate. The popular Clerk's Cloister tavern in Egorian, Cheliax, boils and serves coffee from large vats; the Long Roads Coffeehouse of Kintargo is famous for being a focal point of the Kintargan Rebellion, which led to Ravounel's secession from Cheliax.

In Qadira, coffee houses are commonplace, and a brew known locally as kahve is consumed throughout the day. The leftover grounds at the bottom of a cup are also sometimes used for fortune-telling.

Jalmeray exports coffee, and the residents of Prada Hanam enjoy coffee brewed with water heated by the hot coastal sands. Coffee is also grown in the mountain highlands of Qadira.

Coffee is particularly commonly served in cultures of Garund. In Katapesh, coffee is ceremonially consumed as a precursor to business meetings, upon the arrival of guests, and after large meals. Coffee beans are roasted over a brazier, ground in a trough-shaped mortar, and then brewed three times. The light third cup is called the "blessing cup".

Alkenstar imports coffee from Katapesh and Jalmeray. The wealthy of Alkenstar City's Skyside district enjoy their coffee brewed with minerally and acidically balanced water filtered by the Tinwound Hydroplant and engage in elaborate coffee rituals from the relative safety of their homes, while small coffee stalls emerge in the alleys of Smokeside after working hours. Regardless of class, coffee in Alkenstar City is often consumed over games of Coaches.

In the Mwangi Expanse, "Mwangi style" coffee is brewed to a wine-like acidity and strength that novice palates fail to appreciate. A variety known as Sargavan Red is especially strong and effective at staving off fatigue. Rahadoumi coffee can be rich in flavor, and Taldan nobles sometimes enjoy it mixed with Molthuni brandy as a post-meal beverage.

In Osirion, coffee is traditionally brewed with cinnamon. Visitors to Tephu can visit coffee houses in the New City district and near the plaza of the Tower of Ra's Glory.

In the Thuvian city-state of Pashow, the Coffee Collective also serves as a hub for political discussions.

Coffee is also served to living guests in Yled, Geb, such as to students in the Three Gates neighborhood, where skeletons serve beverages at open-air cafes.

In Tian Xia

Nagajor and Xa Hoi export coffee, and notably high-quality coffee beans are grown in Nagajor's Kullan Dei foothills. Xa Hoi's traditionally nocturnal lifestyle goes hand in hand with the nation's strong cream-sweetened coffee, often enjoyed at midnight. Its coffee culture and trade are so important to the nation that a viral spread that caused widespread crop failures decades ago had crashed its economy and destroyed public morale.

Coffee is also among the chief exports of Kwanlai and the Valash Raj. The Exchange faction of the Pathfinder Society has also bartered coffee with the ratfolk of Diguo-Dashu.

In Casmaron

Kelish coffee is customarily spiced with cinnamon, cloves, and saffron. Kelesh also exports its coffee to places such as Absalom and Oppara, and as far as Goka in western Tian Xia, where it is served at small roadside eateries known as kopi-tiams.

Ular Kel is rife with coffee shops and imports beans from across the continent, chiefly the brew Karazhica, which makes for an acidic, yet smooth and empowering, beverage. Other brews popular in the city include the bitter but strong Yenchaburian hybrid, and the aromatic and deeply warming dragon's blend.

Coffee is also enjoyed in Vudra, including by rakshasas.

As a trade good

The cost of coffee can vary, with prices often around 1 to 3 copper pieces for a brewed cup, 5 coppers for a pound of whole beans, or 8 coppers for a pound of ground beans. At the other end, a full operation of a coffee pot, grinder, cups, brewing instructions, and 80 pounds of beans can be worth up to 2,500 gold pieces, and a mere 5 pounds of rare cockatrice coffee can cost up to 1,500 gold pieces.

In the Great Beyond

Faydhaan shuyookhs enjoy serving coffee to guests, and each uses a signature magical dallah to brew coffee imported from other planes combined with ingredients local to the Plane of Water. The faydhaan's dhalla automatically grinds and brews beans inserted into it, and the coffee it creates is imbued with magic.

In Medina Mudii'a, coffee houses are called maqhas, and six dozen of them populate the Plane of Fire city's Galley Quarter.

Students of the Traveling Academy of Cobyslarni enjoy coffee, though during the Six Schools' Convocation in 4725 AR, Acting Headmistress Bofika Nemesan issued a memorandum warning that its flavor in the Universe is relatively muted.

In alchemy

Investigators who study alchemy often enjoy insight coffee, an alchemical food infused during percolation that sharpens the mind and improves memory recall. The type of memories recalled depend on the flavoring; toffee, for instance, improves the recall of medical knowledge, while pumpkin spice improves recall of occult knowledge.

In religion

Brighites of Alkenstar City consider the mental sharpening that coffee and tea provide to be especially logical beverages. Firebrands serving on a night watch honor Kalekot as they brew coffee to stay alert.

External links

• Coffee (real-world beverage) on Wikipedia
• Coffeehouse (real-world type of location) on Wikipedia