Cherry
Coffee starts as fruit. Each cherry holds two seeds, and only the deep-red ones are ripe enough to pick — which is why the best farms harvest by hand, in several passes.photographic
Depulped
Within hours the fruit is stripped away and the seeds are left to ferment in tanks for 12 to 36 hours, loosening the sticky mucilage that clings to them.
Depulped
The beans are raked across raised patios for one to three weeks, turned by hand every few hours, until their moisture falls to about 11%.
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