A Bitter End For Regular Joe? Scientists Engineer A Smooth, Beanless Coffee
Before Jarret Stopforth takes his first sip of coffee, he adds cream and sugar to mask the bitterness.
But then, he thought, why settle for a regular cup of joe? So the food scientist decided to reengineer coffee, brewing it without the bitterness â or the bean. "I started thinking, we have to be able to break coffee down to its core components and look at how to optimize it," he explains.
Stopforth, who has worked with other food brands such as Chobani, Kettle & Fire and Soylent, partnered. The pair turned a Seattle garage into a brewing lab and spent four months running green beans, roasted beans and brewed coffee through gas and liquid chromatography to separate and catalog more than 1,000 compounds in coffee to create a product that had the same color, aroma, flavor and mouthfeel as coffee.
