Help With Coffee Beans

Thanks Igazor, but I DO have the barista station on my home lot and there is still no option to use the beans in anything. My only options are "drink half-caf caramel soy frothiccino ...." and "serve hot beverages." Under "try something else," there is "cinnamon lite....," lite chai....," "strawberry lite latte...," "soy chai....," "lite chai," and "strawberry frothiccino...." That's it. When I clicked on "serve hot beverages, there is nothing else. They just serve normal beverages that are hot. It does not use any of the ingreds in her inventory at all. There are a couple of other menus, but none have any options to use the coffee beans or herbs.

In order to make beverages out of the beans (and herbs), you need to use the Uni EP barista station rather than a regular coffee maker. But it can't be on a commercial lot that is supposed to be staffed by a barista, you have to add the station to your home lot. The different options for brewing are then on the barista station coffee maker, not on the beans.

Or, since that doesn't fit in well in many cases and most of us don't really want pastry displays in our own kitchens, this mod allows the regular coffee makers to make the beverages also.
http://www.modthesims.info/download.php?t=523680

The beans also make decent crops for gardening, for sims whose skills are high enough. Some of them are very profitable as harvestables.