So marijuana-flavoured java is a thing and it’s 100% legal across the pond, apparently.
Kian Abedini is the owner and roasting master at LA-based coffee company Compelling & Rich and he’s big on green coffee conditioning.
This basically involves exposing unroasted, or green, coffee beans to various flavours, allowing them to seep into the bean’s pores.
According to Abedini, a slow infusion involves filling a bag of unroasted coffee beans with vaporised marijuana smoke and leaving it for 24 hours. Alternatively, for a quick fix, he literally blows smoke over coffee beans while they’re being roasted.
‘I’m essentially hot-boxing the roast room,’ he told LA Weekly.
Abedini gets pretty high during the latter process (shocker), but the person actually drinking the coffee remains… Read the full story