Coffee Notepad
Green coffee defects: Understanding for Better Value with Les Tassés
The world of coffee is fascinating, but often misunderstood, especially when it comes to the impact of green coffee beans on the final quality of the cup. Just like fruits...
Getting started in the world of coffee: Decaffeinated
You have just received your precious bag of 94 Celcius coffee and you have a whole bunch of questions? Our Getting Started in Coffee series is here to help you...
Fermentation in coffee: experiments
As we discussed in our previous article, fermentation is a crucial and indispensable stage in the transition from coffee cherry to green bean. In recent years, producers have been experimenting...
Fermentation in coffee: the basics
As we saw earlier, the coffee treatment process "only" serves to pulp the coffee cherry to obtain a bean with a moisture content suitable for storage and delivery. Whatever the process used to treat the coffee cherry, there is always a fermentation stage.
What interests us today is controlled fermentation. We'll look at 3 basic types of fermentation: carbonic maceration, aerobic fermentation and anaerobic fermentation.
What interests us today is controlled fermentation. We'll look at 3 basic types of fermentation: carbonic maceration, aerobic fermentation and anaerobic fermentation.
Pulping processes
The little green beans we use to bring you the black gold you love so much are not so easy to obtain. It's on farms, often on the other side of the world, that the coffee cherry is transformed into a green bean ready for shipment.