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Serving Mr. Aldous his Favorite Coffee

Serving Mr. Aldous his Favorite Coffee has a right answer and a better one: green beans finish the scene, but only roasting then grinding earns the achievement.

Last updated 2026-08-26

Light spoilers. This page names rooms, items and characters you meet, but keeps the story beats out of it.

Roast the beans on the stove first, then grind them. Green beans will get you through the morning. They will not get you Serving Mr. Aldous his Favorite Coffee.

This is the opening chore of Day 2 and the first of that day's several missable achievements.

Aldous's coffee: green beans also finish the morning, but only roasted and ground beans earn the achievement

The steps

  1. Collect the coffee beans.
  2. Put them on the stove and roast them. Do not skip straight to grinding.
  3. Grind the roasted beans.
  4. Serve.

The grind step is easy to lose track of, because roasting alone looks like the whole puzzle — the beans visibly change and it feels finished. It is not: the achievement wants roasted and ground.

The achievement

Serving Mr. Aldous his Favorite Coffee. The official in-game clue says it outright:

"Green Coffee isn't the tastiest. Roasted Coffee Beans are better."

Unlike most of the game's hidden achievements, this one is not asking you to fail on purpose — it is asking you to do the chore properly when the lazy version would also pass. Day 2 has several of both kinds; the ordered list is on the hidden achievements page.

If you already served them green

Handing Aldous the cup is what closes it. Preparing Coffee fires, the morning moves on to waking William, and the beans are gone from your inventory — there is no second pot.

Nothing on screen marks the loss, which is the whole problem: the chore reads as done because it is done. You find out later, looking at a list that is one shorter than it should be.

The only route back is a save from before you served. If you are reloading anyway, take the save from before the beans were collected rather than from mid-puzzle — the roast and the grind are quick, and a mid-puzzle save can leave you with beans already in a state you cannot undo.

What is next on Day 2

Coffee is followed by waking William — where the feather goes on his face, not his feet — and then the cleaning block. Full route on the Day 2 walkthrough.

The three Day 2 puzzles people actually get stuck on each have their own page: the perfect hunt, the bathing tiles, and the mouse in the cellar wall.

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