Can you "Build a coffee"? [closed]
Would it be valid or invalid English, to use phrases along the following lines:
- Can you build a coffee?
- I'm building a coffee
- I'm going to go and build a coffee
- I built a coffee
Etc.
No. Coffee is made or brewed (in terms of the drink). It's also planted and picked (in terms of the plant).
Building coffee does not make sense.
Looking at COCA, the only times coffee collocates with build is in the contexts of coffee table and coffee break.