I GREW A Cup Of Coffee! ☕

Gotta have a lot of respect for the coffee growers out there after seeing how much time and effort goes into it.

Coffee is usually best 1-2 weeks after roasting - it usually "off-gasses" quite a bit after you first roast it, so it needs to sit in a non-airtight container while the CO2 escapes the roasted beans. otherwise the coffee made with SUPER fresh roasted coffee will taste pretty acidic and "grassy". Also, those old school popcorn "whirly pop" makers are GREAT at roasting coffee. Be sure to look online about "first crack" and "second crack" - the beans will literally start making "cracking" or "popping" noises (and jump around) once once you hit a light/medium roast and a 2nd softer crack when you hit darker roasts. The rabbit hole goes deep so just experiment with some unroasted green coffee if you want to get started! Sweet Marias is a fantastic resource to look up!

Loved the video, Kevin! I’m definitely a coffee nerd so I wanted to mention that coffee roasters will “rest” their freshly roasted coffee beans because they tend to give off mainly green and vegetal tasting notes. Seems counter-intuitive, but you really want 1-2 week old roasted coffee, to get the best flavor. That could have been why your coffee tasted so green!

Personally, I would try to make the fruit part into a jam preserve and see what prize comes out of it. Coffee fruit jam, pair that with your coffee.

Love this! I’ve been growing my own coffee, here in Brookings, Oregon, since 2011. We have an interesting micro-climate here. My coffee “tree” flowers almost 2-3 times a year, & has a lot of coffee fruit (coffee cherries.) right at this moment, in September. It’s in a greenhouse, with my Cardamon, Ginger, Black Pepper, & Ayahuasca vines. Cheers! ❤

When I lived in the Dominican Republic my friend had coffee trees and cacao so we made coffee and chocolate. It is quite a bit of work so that was why people just bought their coffee in the colmado (local store). They have the best tasting coffee in the world (in my opinion).

Jaques the goat! 🤣 This was fun! THIS is why we love Epic Gardening!

Definitely has a "everything tastes better if you grew it yourself" vibe. ☕ Now I really want to see the peanut episode.

I can imagine Kevin growing coffee on a larger scale and bartering it during the next apocalypse challenge.

Love it!!❤😂😂😊 I would love to grow our own coffee beans!