Micro-Mill

Small independent mills that produced finished coffee, ready for export, usually right on the farm.

A Micromill is a tiny low-volume, farm-specific coffee producer who their lots separate, mill it themselves, gaining total control of the process, and tuning it to yield the best possible flavors (and the best price!) In Costa RicaCosta Rican coffee is typically very clean, sweet, with lots of floral accents. hey are prized for their high notes: bright citrus or berry-like flavors in the acidity,..., farmers usually belonged to large cooperative mills, or simply harvested cherryEither a flavor in the coffee, or referring to the fruit of the coffee tree, which somewhat resembles a red cherry.: Either a flavor in the coffee, or... and sold it to a big mill. Large estates might have complete 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... facilities.

Now farmers of modest size can craft small micro-lots with complete control on scaled-down equipment from PenagosPenagos Hermanos is a Colombian company that produces demucilage coffee processors. This is a forced demucilage machine that uses little water, and removes the coffee fruit layer from... or PinhalenseA Brazilian coffee equipment manufacturer, that produces a wide range of equipment for wet-mills and dry-mills, coffee hullers, density sorters, graders, screening machines, roasters, dryers etc. They also.... The demucilageDemucilage refers to a method to remove the fruity layer of coffee cherry... the called mucilage. Mucilage is the layer between the outer skin and the parchment layer,... process has allowed farmers without great access to water, to set up their own mill. Water can even be brought by truck or a small hose since the water usage is so low in the demucilager process, aka machine-washed coffee