Company Man

I've launched my company... Third Wave Coffee, Inc.
I realize this is a fairly generic name and will probably opt to do business under another.
In the meantime, I'm learning any and everything about coffee and the coffee industry that I can.
Recently I've begun to read and discuss the different processes in which coffee cherries are born into green beans.

Mostly they are either "Wet" or "Dry".

coffee cherries are first put in a swimming pool-like tank .The cherries that sink are of course, denser and harder. These are the higher quality of the picked cherries. The cherries that float are separated and used for "other" purposes... Ha ha.

The sinkers can be taken to patios and spread out to dry

or

they can get wet again


Wet processed coffees are dumped into fermentation tanks while the skin softens


Wet or "washed" coffees are said to have improved acidity due to the slight fermentation that takes place in the swimming pool, oops, I mean fermentation tank.

Many or most Central American coffees are wet processed, methinks.

The Brazilian coffee Fazenda Vista Allegre is a natural dry processed coffee that is truly amazing. Many thanks to James at Intelligentsia for turning me on to this great coffee and helping me understand the process. The FVA, by the way is brilliant as a single-origin espresso.

There is WAAAAAY more to this than I've discussed, or even know about for that matter...

If your interested check out:

Coffee Processing

Oh, and by the way... Have you ever eaten a red n' ripe coffee cherry right off the tree?

They're delicious! Like a coffee grape.... Yum Yum.

Thanks for those James!