No Joe: The Time Coffee Was Banned in Prussia
In the recent 18th hundred , Prussia ’s King Frederick the Great ( officially Frederick II ) blacklist coffee and encouraged his regal subjects to imbibe something far more wholesome — beer . According to William Harrison Ukers ’s classic 1922 bookAll About Coffee , Frederick issued this decree on September 13 , 1777 : Though the authenticity of the above quotation can not be reassert , it sure as shooting jibes with King Freddie ’s other feeling on the thing , according toRobert Liberles , a scholar of German - Jewish account ....