Wet-Method Processed and Sun-Dried

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

After the picked cherries are placed in the big tank, the floating cherries are took 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 parchment 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 moisture 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 silver skin, and the resulting green beans sorted and graded.

Most of our coffee trees are 30 to100 years old. We don't need to use the chemical to control disease.

(Kona coffee is the only coffee that grows in an island. Incoming disease are prevented.Coffee trees in other countries only survive under 10 years.)

Our coffee trees grow on the rich rocky lava soil with variety of old flute trees. (Traditional Coffee Farm.)