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Processing - Introduction
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Selva
Negra employs the washed method for processing the coffee beans.
This means that water is used to break apart the coffee cherry
and seperate the two parts of the coffee bean (like the two parts
of a peanut). This process involves the processing of the beans
to seperate various layers including the cherry pulp and the mucilageous
layer (sweet honeylike coating). The entire process starts with
the receipt of the beans from the field. The beans are received
from the field and transferred straight from the truck to a large
bin with a V shaped groove at the bottom, this groove funnels
water, which moves the beans to the milling equipment. (water
is only used as a vehicle to move the coffee, this water is then
recycled and reused to continue moving coffee).
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