FULLY WASHED

Coffee processing method where the coffee is fermented as wet parchment. Red and ripe coffee cherries are washed, pulped, and washed again from its mucilage. These pulped and washed cherries are called parchments. The parchments, then, are sun-dried, hulled, and sorted. This is the most basic coffee process, which produces coffee with clean and bright character with traditional coffee taste

HONEY

Coffee processing method where the coffee is fermented and dried along with its mucilage. Red and ripe coffee cherries are washed and pulped, then dried straight away without washing its mucilage. The dried beans then are hulled and sorted. This way, the mucilage’s sweetness and fruitiness got absorbed into the coffee beans. This process produces coffee with a more prominent honey-like sweet and fruity character

NATURAL

Coffee processing method where the coffee is fermented and dried as a whole cherry. Red and ripe coffee cherries are washed and dried straight away without being pulped. These dried cherries are then hulled and sorted. This way, the cherry mucilage, flesh, and peel’s sweetness, fruitiness, and floral characters got absorbed into the coffee beans. This process produces coffee with a more prominent floral, herb, and spicy character

SEMI WASHED

Semi washed process is where part of the fruit is removed from the seed, through pulping machinery, washing or fermentation, but there is still some left on the seed during the drying. Semi washed process has many different names that all fall under the semi washed category.