Wet-Method Processed and Sun-Dried

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the picked cheries are placed in the big tank, the floating cherries are taked out. Even those cherries look good, they are missing something. Coffee cherry is pulped to remove the outer skin and flesh.

Those skins are used as natural fertilizer on the coffee trees.

The parchemt coffee beans are left overnight in the wood tank to ferment. Then after they are washed with fresh water several times, spread out on the drying deck.

Raked regularly to give even drying. The coffee is then naturally sun-dried on large decks (hoshidanas) for several days. Carefully check the moisure of beans and store them at a controlled temperature and moisture content. (12% moisture)

The dry beans are machine milled to remove the parchment and silverskin, and the resulting green beans sorted and graded.