There’s a whole lot of coffee in my house🌳

One of my coffee trees

There is a song which goes, ‘There is a whole lot of coffee in Brazil’. However, in the last week I believe that there is a whole lot of coffee at my home.

Coffee Beans Galore

Soaking the Beans

We have seven coffee trees which have supplied us with a lot of coffee beans this year. The taste is dependent on whether I have, under or over roasted them.

We are still learning, and our fingers are almost broken from releasing the bean from the skin. I have spent four nights watching about four to five series on TV while squeezing the beans out.

I have such badly stained fingers that I can hardly go out in public without having to explain that it’s not dirt.

The road to a magnificent cuppa coffee is this: Firstly, there is the picking of the beans off the trees, which believe it or not is quite exhausting. Then the soaking for two days to soften the skins, and then the squeezing them out, washing them and then leaving them in the sun to dry and finally the roasting.

What a great aroma there is in the house and it’s not from burnt beans as my David feared.
After having given the long description above on the procedure of coffee making, our friend, who owns a large commercial coffee plantation suggests that all we need to do is leave the beans in the sun to dry and then squeeze or squash them out.

Nothing beats the taste of home-brewed coffee

We still have one tree to harvest, and I will try this much simpler method. When in doubt, ask the professionals.