Coffee is a community drink, stimulating conversation, ideas and passion around the world. Drunk in High Street cafes, homes, restaurants and a million other places it creates passionately given opinion about how to roast the beans, make it and how and when to drink it.

Today, coffee making is akin to an art form, a modern day ritual that shapes our lives. The best Baristas are promoted to rock star status, while enthusiasts are roasting in their garages and sheds and friends gently argue over grain size, water temperature or whether to spend hundreds even thousands of Euros on a Ascasco pump coffee machine or a Sage branded by experimental chef Heston Blumenthal.

One of the most traditional ways of making coffee is the Oriental or Turkish method. This uses a small heating dish known as a Cezve, heat source, water and some extra-finely ground, roasted Arabica beans.

In this short video Iley Özerlat-Gündüz explains how to make thick, dark Turkish coffee using an extra-fine grind produced by the family coffee firm Özerlat. Hailing from northern Cyrpus, the company sells two grades of grind into the UK market, Heritage (ground and roasted in Cyprus using Brazilian Arabica beans) and Mozaik (a modern taste inspired by the bright Espresso flavours).
Illy was speaking at a celebration of Turkish food and drink in Brand Exchange (brandexchange.com) in the City of London.
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