Here is a possibility In an article Coffee Lore in the PEF Quarterly of July 1905 p 258 I read When the use of wine was prohibited its place was taken by a decoction of coffee berries The name coffee is derived from the Arabic Kahweh pronounced Kahveh by the Turks and in its primary sense denoted wine or other intoxicating liquors Lynch in his Narrative p243 also records kahweh as once meaning wine