Coffee ‘wine’ to be produced in Costa Rica
- by crv.staff
- 04.06.10
- 10:29 AM UTC
- Filed in Costa Rica
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Source: Tico Times
By : Adam Williams
A researcher from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology (TEC) is working on a project to produce fermented wine from coffee beans.
Over the past five years, Patricia Arguedas, a researcher at TEC, has worked to brew a fermented, wine-like beverage from the red fruit of the coffee plant. On Monday, Arguedas, who has also found ways to make candies and energy bars from the fruit, is being assisted in her efforts to create the beverage by a grant of ? 86 million ($160,000) from the National Center for Biotechnological Innovation (Cenibiot). The donation by Cenibiot, which also granted funds to 24 other TEC researchers for their work, will help Arguedas complete her work on the beverage, which she said was a project that was “just scraping by.”
“People didn’t understand that it was a fermented drink, like a wine,” she said. “I couldn’t say that it was a wine because it was made from grapes. So, I didn’t call it a wine and that confused many people.”
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