Unlike passionate of the Italian, and not the same as water-like romantic of the French, in the Nordic area, people drink coffee sensibly and moderately, just as their tenacity and plain nationality. Life and coffee of European has formed almost to be a inseparable part, in addition to the different methods of drinking coffee in Italy and France, along from Austria, Switzerland, Germany, to the several other Nordic countries, the customs and tastes of drinking coffee can be said as similar, with their deep understanding of moderation, which is purely in the concentration of taste.
The people in Nordic and Central Europe used to boil coffee at home. The most commonly used by them is simple hand-style paper filter coffee maker, and drip coffee maker which is common in Taiwan. Among them, the Paper Drip method using to brew coffee is originated in Central Europe, as an invention of Mrs. Merita of German in this century, widespread in European continent countries.
But the coffee sold in business premises, due to the requirement of large number of fast supply, are made almost by Espresso coffee machine, what is different is the tastes of different using coffee beans. Drinking coffee in cafes of these countries,, the biggest difference between in Taiwan, may be that they divided clearly three items of coffee, sugar, milk, and in many coffee shops, the price list are ranked black coffee and milk coffee with different price, some even with differences price upon different weight or amount. In some Central European countries like Austria and Switzerland, with the famous dessert making, of course, various styles of pastries also become another excellent performance on coffee table.
In recent several years, the average amount of coffee drinking in the four Nordic countries has been ranked to the top four standings in the world.