It is not commonly known that the coffee berry can be fermented.

We all know coffee, the roasted beans of the coffee plant? Coffee or Coffea. The word "coffee" may have been derived from the Ethiopian "keffa" or the Turkish equivalent found in their word for coffea the word "qahveh." The Arabs still call the beverage "qahwa," meaning "strength."

One of the characteristics of the coffee bean is that it ferments well. Fermentation is the process of making alcohol from organics with high sugar content

The word "qahwa" in Arabic means wine. Qahwa is the origin of the word coffee.

In Europe, coffee was called "the wine of Arabia."

In Ethiopia and some Arabian countries fermenting and wine making from the coffee berries continues today