The Quawa Coffee Blog

A couple of days ago we had already asked us the question whether “Robusta or Arabica” beans are more popular. Thanks to the public data on google search queries, we could answer this question in a fairly straight forward manner. Arabica was the clear winner. Whether more people search for coffee or espresso could be answered equally easy. While the term “Coffee” was searched for around 45 million times in the Month of March, the term “Espresso” was searched for around 9 million times in the month of march. Hence, the very clear winner is the term “coffee”.

We are very happy to provide the Aki der Woche with a Quawa Coffee Package.  The Aki der Woche is the user on Aka aki with the highest activity.

Oftentimes we have asked ourselves in the past which coffee roast was the most popular. According to the public data released by Google detailing the number of search queries on any given topic, we came very close to an answer. While obviously not giving an answer to the question, at least we now what type of coffee roast is searched for most often online.
While Arabica is clearly on top, there is no massive gap between the two.

The idea for Quawa came spontaneous. We were on the lookout for a Coffee which was fair traded,organically cultivated and manually roasted. Apart from that it should consist of 100 % arabica beans, as this would make it smoother for the stomach. In short, high quality while at the same time being sustainable. To our surprise there was no brand that delivered on these promises at the time. While there were many that had one of the factors, we did not find a single coffee that combined the 4. We decided to start Quawa. If worst came to worse, then we would at least have our own dream coffee.

The name “Quawa”

The arabic word “qahwa” is the oldest term for the Coffee as we know it today. For us this meant a that we could experience great coffee without pesticides and without the industrial roasting process. Therefore we decided to base the brand name around this term.
Wikipedia says the following:
The first reference to “coffee” in the English language, in the form chaoua, dates to 1598. In English and other European languages, coffee derives from the Ottoman Turkish kahve, via the Italian caffè. The Turkish word in turn was borrowed from the Arabic: قهوة‎, qahwah. Arab lexicographers maintain that qahwah originally referred to a type of wine, and gave itsetymology, in turn, to the verb qahiya, signifying “to have no appetite”,[11] since this beverage was thought to dull one’s hunger. Several alternative etymologies exist that hold that the Arab form may disguise a loanword from an Ethiopian or African source, suggesting Kaffa, the highland in southwestern Ethiopia as one, since the plant is indigenous to that area.[11][12]However, the term used in that region for the berry and plant is bunn, the native name in Shoa being būn.’[11]

Here you will find everything related to Quawa.  How we came up with the idea, news, special promotions, coffee related things and a whole lot more.  If you would like to get in touch then simply send us an email to hello@quawa.com