
Rain or high humidity leads to the develop of molds and fungus and can ruin a harvest - sometimes a farmer's entire income.ĭry processed coffees tend to not have a huge range of flavor, because the flavor is always pushed towards fruity and sweet due to the coffee cherry.

While the coffees gain unique flavors through this process, it's also a risky bet - a minimum of 2 weeks without sun is needed to allow for drying. The dried fruit is then either disposed of as waste, or if facilities exist, there is now the option of processing it into a coffee flour. Mechanical dryers may be used instead of sun-drying.
#Cherry coffee expresso free
Dry processingĭry processing is a type of coffee processing that involves drying the freshly-picked coffee cherry (fruit) in the sun on large patios for a period of time while repeatedly raking and turning the drying cherry until the green coffee beans are generally free of any dried fruit and the moisture content is about 10.5%. The flavor of the resulting coffee is more "pure" than other methods - unaffected by the coffee cherry. Once the green coffees are removed, they're washed once again to remove residue and placed outside to dry on a patio or raised beds. The wet processing method (washed) involves soaking the coffee cherries and allowing fermentation to take place to separate the cherry from the bean - or it can be run through a mechanical depulper to remove the coffee cherries. Once the coffee beans are processed they are usually bagged in 100-pound, 132-pound or 154-pound coffee sacks and sold on the world market as green coffee beans (milled, but not yet roasted). Aquapulp is another method which cleans the coffee cherry initially and has recently been adopted by many areas that formerly used wet processing.
#Cherry coffee expresso skin
Semi-Washed Processing method a demucilaging machine is used to remove the coffee cherry's skin and most of the mucilage.Pulped Natural Processing involves initially pulping the coffee but without a fermentation stage as in Wet Processing, then drying the beans with much of the mucilage still attached.

