What would green coffee taste like?

[dragos240]

I know that coffee beans are roasted before they're grinded, and then filtered, but what would non-roasted coffee taste like, i did a google search and got nothing, have any of you tryed this? Also would the beans not grind correctly, or when filtering it would just be water? I don't know, what do you think?

[jrusso2]

It would taste terrible, just as cacao beans would that are not roasted and processed.

[alzie]

I would guess that trying to grind green coffee beans would be similar to trying to grind most other fresh fruits or vegetables. You would likely wind up with mashed or pureed coffee beans.

If you tried to make coffee with the pureed coffee beans it would probably make something other than water but I don't think I would like to try to drink it. A french press might make a stronger brew.

Maybe there is someone in the forums who roasts their own beans who would be willing to try and find out what would happen?

[chucky chuckaluck]

what about red coffee (i guess the red part is the fruit part)?

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/C1705165967/E20060404114308/Media/Coffee%20tree.jpg

[jflaker]

It would taste alot like any other raw nut....It would have a grassy/nutty taste.

Order some here.......
http://www.ineedcoffee.com/05/beans/

[jrusso2]

what about red coffee (i guess the red part is the fruit part)?

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/C1705165967/E20060404114308/Media/Coffee%20tree.jpg

The red part is just the outside skin peel that off and its green inside.

[MikeTheC]

You might want to go to CupOfExcellence.org (http://www.cupofexcellence.org/), look around, and maybe fire off an email. They're the organization that rates single origin coffees from around the world. If memory serves, they use green beans as part of their evaluative process, but I don't know enough about it to intelligently or competently comment.

I've had several different winning coffees from their process, and they're definitely amazing.

[treesurf]

what about red coffee (i guess the red part is the fruit part)?

http://prometheus.med.utah.edu/~bwjones/C1705165967/E20060404114308/Media/Coffee%20tree.jpg

Fresh coffee fruits like that are actually somewhat tasty. There is a thin sweet fleshy fruit that surrounds the "bean", which is really a seed. I used to work in a rainforest botanical garden and chewed on my fair share of fresh coffee fruits. The flesh is sweet and good, the "bean" just tastes really green with a slight familiar coffee flavor.

And the above posters are correct: if you tried to grind it you would just get mush/purree.