hi, folks, i am right now at ela ecoland natureretreat, which is a nature retreat in munnar, in the south indian state of kerala. this is basically a cardamom and coffee plantation. the coffee harvest is just over, we thoughtof making a vlog or a small video about coffee, how it is plucked and harvested, how it issun dried, then how do we roast it, and finally
coffee roasting machines south africa, we make it into a powder, and make a cup ofcoffee out of it. this blog is about coffee from the farm tothe coffee cup. this is a coffee tree, coffee is basicallya tree and this is the bean. coffee grows in the equatorial belt, mostlya native of africa and now coffee is grown
in around seventy countries around the world. this is not the way a coffee tree should bebecause they prune it all the time. these trees, i think there are not taken caredproperly, it has grown up high. the reason why we don't grow them high isbecause it is difficult to pluck, it is supposed to be somewhat of this height. they prune it all the time so that it is ina height like this and when more of pruning happens, the yield is more. this is a cluster and what you see in redin the ripe bean, this is the ideal time to pluck this.
this is the unripe one, the bean turns intosomething like this, then it turns into this color. this is the ripe coffee fruit, it is a berrybasically. so if you don't pluck it on time it becomeslike this. this is almost like you know it is gone.theseare the different stages of the coffee berry. it comes like this. the next process is about sun drying, comeon. this is what we call as a "lungi". in kerala, it is kind of a native dress peopleto wear around.
we have some people plucking coffee around,and they were in this attire. so i also opted to wear this. for more comfort, you just fold it and tieit again. so it is pretty much easy to walk. it was about to rain and it is partially rainingright now, that is the reason why we have folded it down. this is coffee bean sun dried, this is howit looks like. this is basically the berry sun dried, weneed to take out the coffee bean. let's go in and lets extract the beans fromthese.
i just brought all the dried coffee berry. i am going to hammer it and probably get thebean out. this is the bean and we have extracted itfrom the husk. we are going to roast it right now. so we just roasted it right now and we areletting it cool down so that we can probably blend it and get it into a powder form. you see this, this is roasted coffee, coffeebean! add two spoons of sugar how is it?
fine, super! thats an awesome coffee! if you want milk coffee, pour in some milkor cream. and you just have it. there is a difference in this coffee, youmight see the color a bit different. it doesnt have chicory, it doesnt have anything,any flavouring elements or any preservatives or anything of that sort. this coffee tasts different and its awesome! what you just had is roasted coffee beans,powdered and we just added hot water into
it, and added some sugar. this is the original coffee. so what you get in the stores would be somethingwhich might have chicory, which might have other preservatives, other flavouring agents,so thats kind of a proprietory brand of coffee that get in stores. if you wanna have some original coffee, comedown to ela ecoland, i am putting the name
of the property and the website address, soprobably you can have a look into it. thats it for now, thank you so much for watching. please do subscribe for more interesting videosfrom us.
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