41 N. Potomac Street Hagerstown, Maryland 21740 Phone: 301-790-2343

The Legend of Dancing Goats

When we purchased our business it was named The Dancing Goat, however there was a Coffee roaster in California with the same name. To prevent any possible lawsuit we renamed the business The Gourmet Goat.  The premise of the name begins with the Legend of how Coffee was first discovered.

Coffee was first discovered in what is now called Ethiopia. According to legend, the area's remote highlands were home to a goat herder named Kaldi. His quiet, peaceful life was changed forever when one afternoon his goats failed to return home. After hours of searching he spied them off in the distance, frolicking and dancing about. As he drew closer, Kaldi could see that his goats' lively behavior came from eating the little red berries off a shiny green-leafed shrub. He tasted some himself and shared the exhilaration of his dancing goats.  From that day forward the morning routine would be forever changed to include the caffeine dance.