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The Story Of Coffee Process until ready to brew

The process of makes coffee is not that easy, takes a long time to make coffee beans ready to brew. Here is the process to makes a coffee:

1. Picking and Harvest the Coffee Cherries

To harvest the Robusta and Arabica coffee cherries farmers need to pick the fruit, based on the colour. Before that, we need to wait 8-11 months to harvest the Robusta and 6-8 months to harvest the Arabica.
Here are the criteria for fruit that are ready to be harvest :

• Green Fruit: This colour indicates that the fruit is not ready yet to harvest
• Yellow: This colour is indicated the fruit is started to ripen but is ripe yet.
• Red: This colour indicates that the fruit is ready to harvest because the colour indicated the fruit is ripe, the aroma and taste from the fruit are perfect.
• Dark Red: This colour indicated the coffee cherries are over ripen and it produces a bad quality of coffee.

2. Coffee Cherries Sorting

In these steps, after the picking and harvest the coffee cherries, the next step is to sorting the coffee cherries to separate the bad quality and the good quality. The sorting step is to clean the dirt in the fruit. After that wash, the coffee cherries and dried. In these steps, they have two methods, the dry method and the wet method. In the dry process, they wash the sorting fruit and dried under the sun until the moisture content in the seeds become 12-13%.

And the wet process they use the peeling machine to separate the coffee cherries from the beans and ferment them in the water for a couple of hours or days. After that dried the beans under the sun. If using this method can produce a different taste in the coffee beans. If using the dry method the resulting coffee beans will taste sweet, but if using the the wet method the resulting coffee beans will taste bitter.

3. Roasting the Coffee

After sorting and the dried the coffee beans then re-sorting again the beans. The coffee beans that are good and already green will be selected to the next step is roasting. The roasting method can affect the taste of the coffee beans. The roasting step:

• Dried the coffee bean in the roasting machine until the water content has 11- 13%. As long the water content is higher than 13%. The bean doesn’t change to brown.
• After completing roasting, resting the beans to decrease the carbon dioxide. After more than 5 hour resting the coffee beans is ready to brew.

After a long journey through the process of making coffee beans until it becomes a coffee that is ready to be served. And the final stage is after roasting the coffee beans, coffee beans are ready to brew and served by the barista.