Coffee beans & pods

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Beans and pods from roasters worth knowing, sorted by origin, roast and how you brew.

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The red fruit of the coffee plant. Every coffee bean starts as a seed inside one. Three steps turn it into what you buy:

01 PickCherries ripen to deep red

02 ProcessFruit is removed, seeds dried

03 RoastGreen seeds turn brown

The story behind the red

From cherry to cup.

Every bean in the registry started as the seed of a coffee cherry.

Coffee grows on shrubs in the tropics. Altitude, soil and climate shape the flavor.

Cherries ripen from green to deep red and are picked, often by hand.

The fruit is removed and the seeds are dried. Washed, natural and honey methods each taste different.

Green seeds are roasted brown. Lighter roasts keep more fruit; darker ones lean toward chocolate.