Welcome to the third edition of our series where we unearth answers to the question… What even IS Coffee, anyway? In our last two posts, we covered a general overview of what coffee is, and dug deeper into coffee’s growing regions and harvest protocols. Today, we’re going to explore what happens to the coffee between harvest and export. Strap in, y’all! It’s time to learn about Processing. After harvest, coffee is typically sorted by hand to remove cherries that are underripe, overripe, or defective, and to remove detritus like sticks, leaves, bugs, etc. Then the coffee moves on to processing....

Dizzy’s lifelong respect for the music was evident. In 1985 Dizzy was recorded on NPR’s All Things Considered saying, “Music is so deep, and so vast, that one person only gets to skimming off the top. And there’s a whole lot under the bottom that’s still there for discovery.” 

We find ourselves feeling the same way about coffee– a lifetime of learning will always lead to new discoveries around the next bend.