7 Coffee Beans

1. Emeraude

Emeraude Coffee is a peasant coffee that is easily grown in wet temperate climates. It has a heavy yield, disease resistance, and is rain rot resistant. Brews up as a cup of olive green liquid. It has a smooth texture and pleasant mouthfeel, but the taste is divisive. People who dislike Emeraude claim it tastes like dirt. People who like it generally agree, with the caveat that it tastes like nice dirt.

Taste: Earthy and herbal

Caffeine: Low

Growing Conditions: Low hills and semi-forested areas in temperate climates

Bean: small and shiny green

Cost: Inexpensive

2. Gloreredh 

Gloreredh is a very rare and expensive coffee that was cultivated by the Oried, or High Elves. As it was intended to be the pinnacle, it is difficult to grow anywhere outside of an elfin grove, and the almost metallic gold beans demand an exorbitant cost. The coffee brewed from these beans looks almost like liquid gold in moonlight

Taste: sublime and complicated with notes of ivory, oak, petrichor, and anemoia

Caffeine: Very high

Growing Conditions: only in Elfin sacred groves, or high-level dungeons

Bean: large and flat, with a metallic gold sheen

Cost: Prohibitive

3. Moorehead

Formerly Moreredh from the elder tongue, this is the common black coffee that everyone is familiar with.

Taste: Slightly bitter with floral notes

Caffeine: moderate

Growing Conditions: cool mountainous above 6000 feet 

Bean: medium brown bean

Cost: high

4. Rhoscure or Tarasceen Red

A mellow and flavorful coffee only found and sold in Terrasquestone. This is the most common brew in the city, and the surrounding areas. There are many coffee houses that flourish their specific manner of treating, brewing, and presenting this esteemed beverage of the city.

Taste: notes of vanilla, chocolate, caramel, and cinnamon

Caffeine: high

Growing Conditions: Only in vicinity of Terrasquestone, and brought up from the dungeon by adventurers

Bean: medium red-orange 

Cost: low to high, depending on part of the city and prep method

5. Ortadaen

Also known as the Black Blood of Scathanna, Corpse-Riser, and other unique names. This coffee is only found in Scathanna, but can be purchased in Tir an Bas, and parts of Tir Artach. Outside of the shadowed lands, its almost unknown

Taste: notes of hiraeth, toska, and floral elements

Caffeine: borderline toxic

Growing Conditions: the blasted volcanic soil of the mountains on the Scathannan coast

Bean: small and glossy black

Cost: astronomical (outside of Scathanna) to high 

6. Telumbia

No one is really sure if Telumbia is a plant-like fungus or a fungus-like plant, but it grows underground, commonly in dungeons. This beans can be broken out of the pods and chewed as a stimulant, while coffee makers in Understone will brew it using heated sand and cups made of an alloy of wightsilver and tarasceen steel, which completely changes the taste. Understone Telum is a pleasant grayish-brown cup. The raw beans, or beans ground and boiled over a campfire make a murky sour brew that causes facial tics and nausea, but will keep a hero awake for hours

Taste: Telum has notes of cream, smoke, and fresh broken soil after a rain. Heroe's coffee is sour like old socks.

Caffeine: very high

Growing Conditions: underground

Bean: large soft gray pods

Cost: low to modest

7. Ingolemovido

Carefully cultivated over centuries, Ingolemovido was created by the magi of Palisander. They curated the growth of these plants to produce a mana infused product, in an attempt to make Conjurer's Coffee, or coffee that was also a mana restorative. They succeeded, though most of the groves were consumed in the cataclysm that ended their empire. Non-magic users can be poisoned by poorly made ingolemovido, and easily die from the effects. 

Taste: alacric, with notes of antimony and anxiety

Caffeine: unknowable, but likely poisonous

Growing Conditions: The Pralendian wastelands, where surviving orchards might be found in sheltered valleys

Bean: iridiscent brown and purple

Cost: gobsmacking.