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Kopi jos

A glass of kopi jos
Type	Hot beverage
Country of origin	Yogyakarta, Indonesia
Ingredients	coffee, sugar, charcoal

Kopi jos or alternatively spelt as kopi joss (lit. "jos coffee") is a Yogyakartan coffee beverage that is served with a hot burning charcoal. The charcoal is put inside a black unfiltered coffee brew with sugar, then served. This coffee is usually sold in angkringan (Javanese small street vendor). Typically, a glass of kopi jos costs around 5.000 Indonesian rupiah.

History

The early history of kopi jos invention started from a local Javanese small street vendor calles Angkringan Lek Man which is one of the most famous angkringan in the whole Yogyakarta area. Due to its proximity to Yogyakarta railway station or commonly known as Tugu Station, most of its customers are train station employees. The customers are mostly from East Java province that usually orders a local coffee called kopi kothok, a common type of East Javan coffee consisted of only regular ground coffee and sugar that is boiled inside a scorching water pot, not brewed on a glass with warm water like a typical instant coffee, hence why kopi kothok consistency is rich, super dark, and thick. But at that time, Lek Man could not make a kopi kothok, so he creatively dropped a burning hot charcoal inside the coffee brew. Unexpectedly, the customers liked the coffee brew mixed with charcoal and called it kopi jos, possibly an onomatopoeia derived from the sound of the hot charcoal dropped in a boiling coffee brew, hence the name "jos". The kopi jos then became famous and is copied by many other angkringan vendors and now becomes a Yogyakartan specialty beverage.