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  • work in coffee long enough, and someone will make a joke about how one particular coffee variety has the same name as a style of American whiskey.

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  • Bourbon in that coffee absolutely like me.

  • For a moment, you might wonder why these two things share the same name.

  • Is it a coincidence, kind of homonym or something else?

  • Is it meaningful that bourbon whiskey has pronounced differently to pull Boram coffee?

  • After thinking about it for a moment just like me?

  • You probably forget about it and carry on with your day.

  • They are, however, connected the mid point, being one of the great royal families and dynasties in Europe.

  • A house that word France for 200 years among them is one of the most famous kings of France.

  • Louis, the 14th known as the Sun King.

  • That same family lineage continues today is the current monarch in space.

  • This is the House of Bobo.

  • Let's start with whiskey bourbons.

  • History is muddy on Disputed.

  • There are two claims as to where its name came from.

  • The obvious one is Bourbon County in Kentucky.

  • Folklore says that in the early 18 hundreds, whiskey was shipped in barrels from the county on those barrels were marked with old bourbon.

  • That was the name that people used for that county.

  • Bourbon County was given its name as acknowledgment for the assistance that Louis the 16th and the French gave during the American Revolutionary War.

  • In fact, capital of the county is named Paris.

  • Bourbon does have another claim for the name.

  • Kentucky Whiskey sold well in New Orleans as a cheap alternative to the more expensive cognac, and it was sold on the now famous Bourbon Street.

  • That street was also named the ruling Council.

  • Boban, on New Orleans itself, was named after the Duke of Orleans, who acted as regent of France until Louis the 15th came of age.

  • That explains the whiskey.

  • But what about coffee?

  • May 9th is the Saint's Day of Santa Apollonia in Portugal.

  • On that day, in 15 07 Portuguese crew landed on an island off the coast of Madagascar.

  • They decided to name the island Santa Apollonia.

  • Much later it became a stopper of vessels on the way from Yemen to Indonesia.

  • On a search, coffee ended up being planted on the island that coffee would mutate and when it was exported, back to Brazil.

  • It took the name of the island.

  • Now that coffee wasn't named for Santa Apollonia because 16 40 to the French had colonized the island primarily to house 12 mutineers from Madagascar.

  • They had renamed the island Boban, naming it for the ruling family of the time.

  • The House of Boban.

  • That is how coffee whiskey on the Sun King well, came to share a name.

work in coffee long enough, and someone will make a joke about how one particular coffee variety has the same name as a style of American whiskey.

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