Re: [DIYbio] This is a shot in the dark, but does anyone happen to love coffee and order lab reagents in bulk?

On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:10:05PM -0500, Daniel C. wrote:

> What's more interesting to me is to try to "process" the green coffee
> beans with lactobacteria (and maybe a few others? I don't know what
> we'd want to use) in an attempt to reproduce in a lab what happens in
> the gut of civet cats naturally. You know, those things in southeast
> Asia that eat ripe coffee cherries and then poop them out later.

The keyword in above sentece is 'ripe'.

> Apparently the bacterial process in their gut changes the flavor
> profile quite a bit. If someone could figure out how to do that
> artificially I bet you could make a lot of money.

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