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Article: Stored coffees come of age: before our beloved brew makes its way to the breakfast table, a complex process of storing coffee is required that is not as simple as it is often perceived. Coffee beans require an intricate and demanding storing process that involves a lengthy duration of time, maintaining a proper climate, and strictly controlled conditions to produce a superior bean.(Coffee Storage)
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- Tea & Coffee Trade Journal
- Article date:
- May 1, 2007
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The long time to wait between harvest and consumption has always been a feature of coffee. In part this is due to on-farm processing requirements of coffee cherry production including pulping, fermentation, washing and drying for premium wet processed Arabica origins and drying and hulling for the dry processed commodity, mostly Robusta and lower grade Arabica in Brazil.
Coffee is produced in hot and wet tropics but predominantly roasted, manufactured, and consumed in countries with temperate climates. This means that production is dependent on longer storage, transit times, and movement across different climatic zones with varying environmental conditions, ...