How to grow and roast your own coffee beans at home

From growing fresh coffee trees to harvesting fresh beans to picking, peeling, drying, de-husking, taking your green beans, and finally roasting your own coffee beans.

[jfiji]

Don't throw away the cherry skin! Dry them. That's "Cascara Tea." A very wonderful tea!

[theresechenoweth]

My coffee tree has gone mad this year. It’s biggest crop yet. Only took about six years to get to this stage. It’s keeping me very busy picking, hulling, soaking/fermenting to remove the slime, drying, dehusking and eventually roasting. The coffee has been great. I figure with my time included it’s worth about $500 per cup!

[alonsoguerra]

Great job! I too started processing my own coffee about a year ago. A game changing hack I found to remove the hulls is, if you have a high powered dough mixer like a Kenwood or KitchenAid, put them in there with a plastic or silicone paddle attachment and put it on max speed. Works best in batches. No broken beans! cheers.

[joyfullittlethings]

You've got a whole coffee plantation going on out there. Bravo!

[pokegaiyui]

Very informative! I recently started my own micro coffee roastery out of VA and have always been interested in growing my own plants as a hobby!

[k.r.baylor]

Thank you for creating such an easy-to-watch vid on home coffee roasting. I just took my first 40 cherries off one of my trees today and thanks to you knew what to expect for the first stage (hulling). They were as slimy and as wet as you described!

Now I will wait a few days for them to dry and follow the next step in your excellent video. Kindest thanks to you and your daughter for the help! --RB, Virginia, USA

[TABULOUS]

I appreciate the simplicity of detail within the arrangement of the information you've shared.
Very thorough AND efficient without a bunch of marketed fluff.

[Mariatrieseverything]

My grandfather would just place them on his roof and let the sun do the work. No need to peel the skin off since the wind would take the dry skin off. Best coffee ☕️ ❤ Sadly, my grandfather past 3 years ago 😢.

[roxane]

Exactly the information I wanted, with all the step clearly explained 👌

[robwebster]

Try getting 2 cutting boards, roughly the same size, put one board on a bench and lay out cherries around the middle of the board, then cover with the other board, creating a coffee bean sandwich. Press down on the top board whilst giving it a slight twist back and forth. Doing one at a time gets tough on the fingers when you've got a couple of buckets to do, and you haven't got free child labour available. I find those cheap, plastic cutting boards with a machined finish work well. Putting down a wet cloth on the bench, beneath the sandwich helps it to stop slipping. Get yourself an air fryer with a rotisserie basket for roasting, you'll get far more consistent results. You'll find that the beans can be abrasive on the coating of your non-stick frypan you've got there. You don't want to trash a $150 frypan to roast $30 worth of beans. When you've finished harvesting, be sure to remove ALL berries from the tree and the ground, it'll help reduce the amount of coffee bean weevils that can get in and ruin a crop, and you'll get less floaters next year. You can be pretty brutal when pruning the trees. That one that's 8ft high could be cut in half and still produce a decent qty next year. I cut mine to around 1.4m after harvesting, so the next year they grow to under 2m. Just makes it easier to pick, picking is not the most exciting part of the process, so no need to make it difficult as well.

[christopherreed]

Thanks a lot ! That was just what i was looking for, a step by step way to harvest our coffee tree here in the filipines...

[nilssonakerlund]

Seems very labor intensive. I'm surprised that coffee isn't more expensive than it currently is.

[aussietracey]

i live in cairns, far north queensland. i have 2 coffee trees that i have in pots. i hope oneday to have beans to roast and make coffee

[DollopussD]

Finally got the sand I needed to follow your instructions. I used "course sand" which is a bit more construction grade and a 16 Ferrrero Rocher box for my container. Hopefully by September I'll be officially growing coffee 👍

[christopherruggiero]

Great video! Just got my first arabica coffee tree and this video will be a great reference!

[sunhalo]

Thank you. Very informative and interesting. Great video work as well.

[sunshine]

Great video. High five to you and your daughter. I learned a lot. 💯

[ANJH]

Bless come back live your work great stuff!

[farisasmith]

I just bought two plants .Im gonna try roasting them in a wok. The high sides wil give more surface for them to move around. Great video!

[spamsponge]

Thanks for showing the stages, that's what I was looking for.