India

According to legend, coffee was introduced to India in the 16th century by a Muslim holy man called Baba Budan, who discovered the joy of the drink while on a pilgrimage to Mecca and smuggled some beans back. Indian filter coffee, which is extremely popular in the south, is very slowly brewed using a special filter device, and served in a metal tumbler. Extremely potent, it is usually mixed with milk and sugar before being enjoyed.

Cuba

Coffee has been an integral part of life in Cuba since the 18th century, when French farmers escaping the revoluton in Haiti started to grow the crop there. A café Cubano (pictured) is a sweet and strong espresso which is mixed with sugar while it brews.

Japan

In Japan, both hot and cold coffee is readily available in cans from vending machines and supermarkets. The first canned coffee was introduced into the country in the 1960s.

Mexico

Café de olla is a delicious spiced coffee, flavoured with a cinnamon stick and an unrefined sugar called piloncillo. The drink is traditionally served in clay pots, which are said to impart a slightly earthy flavour to the drink.

Vietnam

Iced coffee is enjoyed all over the world. In Vietnam, the drink is usually made with dark roast coffee and sweetened condensed milk.

Ethiopia

Ehtiopia was the birthplace of coffee, and the drink still a central part of life there today: a common Ethiopian coffee saying is "Buna dabo naw", or "Coffee is our bread". Coffee ceremonies play an important role in Ethiopians' social life: women will often spend two to three hours making the coffee, from roasting the beans to serving it to family and guests, and use a special spouted pot known as a jebena to make it.

Australia

The Australians take their coffee very seriously. Their love affair with the drink is thought to have been kickstarted by Italian immigrants who moved to the country after the Second World War. The flat white, a type of espresso with a thin layer of velvety milk on top, is the country's most famous caffeineted export, though New Zealand also lays claim to having created it.

Turkish coffee

A Turkish proverb tells us that "Coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as love". Making the perfect Turkish cup involves boiling extremely finely-ground coffee beans in a pot known as a cevze, with sugar and water, before pouring the drink into small cups. So important is coffee drinking to Turkish social life that UNESCO added it to their inventory of "intangible cultural heritage". The drink is consumed in a similar way in many countries in the Middle East and North Africa.

Thailand

Oilang, or Thai iced coffee, is coffee blended with ice and a range of flavourings from sesame seeds to cardamom (many shops will sell special oilang powder, so making it is easier). The drink is often served with condensed milk, which is thought to be a relic from the mid-20th century, when American military bases in the country sold it.

Senegal

For coffee with a kick, try Café Touba, a traditional drink of Senegal. The drink is flavoured with peppery seeds known as djar or grains of Selim, and according to legend was invented by the mystic Ahmadou Bamba, the founder of Senegal's Islamic Mouride brotherhood. The coffee is named for the city of Touba, where the Mouride headquarters are found.

Italy

If you're visitng Italy and order a caffè, what wull turn up is an espresso - the small but strong drink that Italians love to get their caffeine hit from, and which has spread around the world. Milky drinks like cappucinos do exist, but are usually only drunk in the morning.

Austria

There's nothing better than relaxing in a beautiful Austrian coffee house wth a wiener melange - a delicious cappucino-style drink of coffee topped with milk foam.

Irish coffee

What could be better than coffee and booze together? The Irish coffee, a whiskey-spikey concoction topped with cream, is said to have been invented on a chilly winter night in Limerick in the 1940s, when a group of Americans arrived, seeking a drink that would warm them up. The recipe was later taken to the US, and the rest is history.

Source: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/