Tag: natural
Natural Process Coffee Explained
The oldest coffee processing method, in which whole cherries dry intact in the sun — how it works, the fruit-forward and wine-like flavors it produces, where it's traditional (Ethiopia, Yemen, Brazil), and the risks that make it a high-wire act.
Brazilian Coffee: The World's Largest Producer
How Brazil came to grow a third of the world's coffee — Minas Gerais and the great producing regions, the natural-processing tradition, mechanized harvests on the cerrado, and the chocolate-and-nut profile that anchors espresso blends everywhere.
Yemen and the Port of Mocha
The story of the world's first commercial coffee — Yemen's terraced mountain farms, the Sufi mystics who first brewed qahwa, the port of Mocha that named a drink, and the wild, wine-like cup that still comes from coffee's oldest terroir.