Alright, guys here is something you can see it's starting to turn
unfortunately, and I'm about to get on a
jeep what they call a sumo here to go to the next town and
I'm afraid that I might not get a chance to review this before it goes bad. So I have a
couple minutes
This is a wild coffee
It might be a cultivated variety but doesn't look like any that I've seen there is
robusto coffee there is
Liberica  coffee, there's a few different kinds out there we mostly get
It's not coming to mind. I'll put it on the screen
this is the kind of coffee that we usually drink here or in the US so
Yeah, there are several different species out there, but not too much I can do with it
the seeds are already kind of like moldy and I don't really have the means or the capability to
Like roast it while I'm here
Unfortunately, that'd be a cool thing to do though
but I can like eat the beans if you take one of these beans and you just kind of squeeze it I
Just shot one out. Well, luckily. There's two beans in here. You can see
Right there
If It'll focus on it, there is the
coffee bean
You don't want to eat the skin of the coffee bean but the bean itself and the pulp around the seed is totally okay
So what's like give it a try? It's I guess a little little bit of a green tinge to it
That's good
Yeah, I actually tastes better
Than the one that I had in Columbia
It's got like a little something extra to it little hard to detect what that is, maybe a little bit like bell pepper
I want to say it's like
Mango-ish like a nutty mango
But the flavor on is very mild
So I'm kind of like I'm reaching trying to find what that taste is, there is a distinct taste to it
but
Because it's like such a mild flavor it's kinda hard to to pick up, yeah its good.
Okay, I'm gonna bite the seed because you get if you eat the beans
While, they're fresh
It's all right. You could eat these things it'll be fine. It's a twig kind of flavor. It's kind of like woody.
It's got like a little bit of bitterness to it a little bit of herbal taste to it
I'd imagine if you made coffee out of this that coffee
would be very
herbal flavor, and have a herbal taste to it
Unfortunately, I think that's of all pretty much going to be able to say about it
But it's interesting...interesting to show that there are a lot of coffee species out there. We only really know
like one
There's a few others that you can like hunt down that other cultures drink, but there's really like a ton more
so, you know Coffee is such an important thing to us that we love coffee so much, but
we could be having different types of coffee, like wild coffees and that is like
Amazing to me. I think like if someone were to be, you know, were like go out and like
Find some of these like rare coffee species and like grow them
then don't like even greater expand the the
Number of different coffee varieties out there like drinks of coffee that we have and that's kind of nuts to me
I think there's a lot of room to grow
With you know the culinary world
Using fruit from other areas that you know are not so commonly known
In the same with the coffee world, I think Coffee stuff. I could really get down on some of these
Rare coffees out there. All right another fascinating little find
Walking down this in this village here
here's the
Wild coffee that I tried not too long ago looks very similar to the one that I found in
In Assam and Guwahati
Which I guess makes sense, you know if there's like a variety that grows around here
I'm not like too terribly far maybe like a five hour drive from there. So
Make sense. There's somebody redder
colored ones
But yeah, how about that was not expecting to find this out here. That's it's pretty cool
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