Homemade Coffee

Posted on Thursday, October 16th, 2008 | 2 Comments

The title ‘Home Barista’ is flashed around a lot these days.
Since ‘barista’ literally means bartender in Italian, in theory, anyone who puts together a cup of juice and takes the time to add some ice could be classed as a ‘Home Barista’.
Of course i’m being stupid. To be a home barista, one needs to have [...]

Eden Coffee - Drying

Posted on Tuesday, December 11th, 2007 | 6 Comments

So, for simplicity’s sake I have chosen to process the coffee in the Sumatran & Brazialian pulped natural/semi-wet style. This is, as it says on the packet, a cross between the wet and dry processes. As seen on the previous post the cherries are hulled but the slime covered beans don’t go to fermentation tanks, [...]

Eden Coffee - Wet Pulping and Processing

Posted on Friday, December 7th, 2007 | 3 Comments

I was going to do the processing of this coffee as one post but it’s such an involved task that I think it deserves two.

It is very important that the freshly picked cherries are dealt with as soon as possible, once off the tree they will deteriorate and eventually rot quite quickly, which, if left [...]

Eden Coffee - Harvesting Day 1

Posted on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007 | 4 Comments

A while ago I posted a topic titled Cornish Coffee, it was about an idea that I had for harvesting, processing & roasting some of the coffee being grown right here in Cornwall at The Eden Project. Well things have moved faster than I thought, mainly thanks to Tom from Origin and the very kind [...]