The Milling Process Begins

All of our specialty gourmet coffee is washed with fresh water only and it is 100% patio sun-dried. To be received at the mill all the berries must be fully ripened with a dark cherry color, otherwise that particular delivery of coffee will not be accepted.

What happens to the coffee berries at the coffee mill?

To begin with, the tropical sun, the rich volcanic soil, with its deep dark humus, product of our shade and forest trees compost, the genetics of "Old Arabica", Borbon and Pacamara coffee trees and the mysterious Lamatapec Mountains that are bathed in cool northern breezes, generously transfer to the berry all the components that constitute perfection. In other words, once nature produces the berry, no one can better it, however, and here is the gist of it all, the berry can be ruined if it is processed wrong!

Once the trucks enter the mill and pass the weighing station, the berries enter a huge recollection bin where they pass into the depulping process. Here the berries are separated from the skin, leaving the skinless berry, still covered by mucilage (the fruity, meaty part), the hull and underneath that, we find the actual coffee bean.

The next step finds this still fruity berry in a fermenting bin; where by natural fermentation, the mucilage is softened by this gentle process. The bean is then separated from the mucilage by a washing process in clear, clean water.

The beans at this point are no longer berries, they are coffee beans, that still must be dried and hulled.

For the drying, we have nine 9 acres of patios in order to bring down the humidity of our unhulled coffee to 12%...it's a 100% sun drying procedure.

We now take our beautifully shaped, unhulled beans to a resting place. These are huge wooden store houses, where the coffee will rest for 45 days. Here the oils of our coffee beans will become evenly distributed, then we hull the beans, hand clean them and send them for their roasting and packing process, insuring you the freshest coffee in the world!

Say...instead of me writing so much about this, why don't you see the process first hand? Come on down and visit us. We'd love to have you!