tea or coffee?

[Soybomb]

I'm thinking about it and I know I surely can't be the first.

So who has smoked a tea or coffee?

[Jarhead]

I drank some herbal tea once or twice and then we smoked what was left.
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[Rayzer]

Smoked a lot of tea in the '70s...
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[Harry Nutczak]

Now maybe if you were able to get unprocessed, green, coffee beans, and roast them over a wood-fire, that may introduce a nice rustic characteristic to the finished drink. Heck, read up on roasting coffee and see if you can do anything worthwhile.

We have a business about 1 block away from us that roasts green coffee beans, I thought it would be a heavenly scent, But I was wrong! It smells like burnt popcorn, burnt toast, even burning garbage! Many people think it is the crematorium that they are smelling, but it is the specialty coffee place when they are roasting.

BTW, one of the girls that works at the nearby funeral home where they cremate bodies was walking past one morning, and she commented on how good the area smells since we opened here, and my comment was "Yup, Our BBQ smells way better than yours does!" and the first thing she said is "that's the coffee place you're smelling, not us"
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[SVonhof]

I work with a guy who roasts his own coffee beans. He said he has to do it outside because of the amount of smoke it puts off. Not a problem for us with our smokers, but don't be shocked if you start doing it and notice an unusual amount of smoke.
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[Inner10]

I use to roast my own, I go on adventurous kicks of roasting every now and then.

I never invested in a decent sample roaster, but there are consumer counter-top ones available for around 250 dollars.

I buy my green coffee from a local father-son business, costs 5 bucks cash for a pound.

One thing about roasting coffee you need alot of heat, I don't think low-and-slow is going to cut it. If you got your smoker nice and hot you could roast them on a tray.

They product an uncanny amount of smoke, I prefer to use a camp stove outside. Get an old steel pan, throw em in, crank the heat to high and don't stock shaking your wrist...when the beans look oily and brown and you wrist is about it fall off you are good to go.

Funny enough my whirly-pop popcorn popping pot that I got for free works exceptionally well for roasting coffee beans.

[LM600]

I've made tea smoked chicken before and have to say I was completely underwhelmed by it!

[Carnivorous Beast]

The only way I have seen people smoke tea was to put either tea bags or loose leaf tea on a piece of foil in the smoker and cold smoke it. I have never heard of coffee. I imagine it may be too strong on its own to notice the smoke flavor. Usually people will smoke a mild or white tea... just my .02

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[SoEzzy]

There are several teas from China that are smoked... if memory serves me, Keemun (sp) is one of them, Lapsang Souchong is another.
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