Can Coffee Get You Drunk?

Coffee is the way a lot of people start their day, and without their morning doze of coffee people may feel that they are not fully awake. However a unique scientific experiment is trying to put ground coffee beans to a more notorious use… to make alcohol. Now that may have quite the opposite effect on people looking to clear their morning haze.

Scientists got roasted coffee beans from a Portuguese company and dried it before grinding them to a powder. This powder was then heated for almost an hour in water before the liquid was segregated and sugar added to it. Yeast cells were added to the concoction to ensure fermentation like in other alcohol brewing processes.

The new alcoholic drink retrieved contains 40% alcohol just like vodka and tequila. The 8 lucky testers who got to sample it say that the taste is bitter and pungent, while the smell is of coffee. There is a hope of improving the taste of the beverage by aging it for a longer period of time. Will this new drink catch on and make the science experiment a success? Only time will tell.