The way a coffee is processed, it’s transformation from fruit on the coffee shrub to green bean ready to roast, is a key to understanding the resulting flavors. You can see and hear talk of processing in our farm videos and travelogues. And here you find some articles focused on it.
Dan and Tom sat down with Pedro and Leo from Medellin, ColombiaColombian coffee is highly marketed and widely available in the US. They have been largely successful at equating the name Colombian Coffee with "Good" Coffee. This is half-true. Colombian can be very balanced, with good to talk all about coffee sourcing. For our 30th Podcast, Pedro and Leo
An in depth discussion of the decaffeination process and how it affects green coffee
Green coffee refers to the processed seed of the coffee tree fruit. Coffee is a flowering shrub that produces fruit. The seeds of the fruit are processed, roasted, ground and prepared as an infusion.: Coffee. This podcast episode is a recording of a Zoom discussion Tom
Great tasting decaf coffee without the use of chemicals Most of our decaf coffees are produced by Swiss Water, a decaffeination processingThe removal of the
From Sweet Maria’s travelogues to various countries, images of how wet processingThe removal of the cherry and parchment from the coffee seed.: Coffee is either wet-processed (also called washed or wet-milled) or dry-processed (also called wild, natural or natural dry, and we abbreviate it DP sometimes). is done in various parts of the world.
Machine Harvesting, Hand Picking, Quality Coffee in BrazilBrazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra sang, "they grow an awful lot of coffee in Brazil".: Brazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra sang, "they grow an awful lot of and Beyond Is the BrazilBrazil is a coffee giant . As Frank Sinatra sang, “they grow an
Dry processDry process coffee is a method for taking the fruit from the tree to an exportable green bean. The whole intact coffee cherryOriginally coffee literature referred to the fruit of the tree as a "berry" but in time it became a cherry. It is of course neither. Nor is the seed of the coffee a bean. All is
When a coffee person says “Naturals” they mean “Dry Process” Coffee. Why all the confusion? There’s some questions and misconceptions that evolve around the dry
It’s hard being a bean. This is what wet-processed coffee goes through to result in a good tasting cup. I made this video in Huehuetenango GuatemalaGuatemalan coffee is considered a top quality coffee producer in Central America. Due to our proximity to Guatemala, some of the nicest coffees from this origin come to the United States. : Guatemalan growing regions at a small wet mill
In Kenya, a "Factory" is actually a coffee wet mill (called a washing station in other parts of Africa) where the fresh cherry is brought for wet-processing. It is called a wet mill usually, and.
We kick off our Q & A with a customer question about fermentationA key part of the wet process of coffee fruit is overnight fermentation, to break down the fruit (mucilage) layer that tenaciously clings to the coffee seed, so it can be washed off. Fermentation must!
With a focus on East Africa, we discuss how quality coffee happens, and the hard work behind it… Updated 9/10/2019 A lot has happened since this article
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