From Sun-Dried to Sealed Tanks
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Coffee's oldest craft is being reinvented, and not everyone is happy about it. How washed, natural, honey, anaerobic and co-fermented processing shape what ends up in the cup.
By Saam Kzad
10 min read
Imagine two bags of coffee from the same farm, picked from the same trees during the same week. One tastes of lemon peel and black tea: clean, bright, almost glassy. The other tastes of blueberry jam and red wine, heavy enough to coat the tongue. Everything about how they were grown was identical. The difference between them was decided in the few days after the cherries came off the branch, by a single choice about what to do with the fruit.
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