The next step is to dry the coffee. We drain the water from the tanks, remove the clean coffee beans and spread them on a concrete patio for sun drying. Seven full days of sunshine and frequent stirring are needed before reaching the desired 11% to 12% moisture content. To determine whether the coffee is dry you can roll some beans together in your hand and see how easily the parchment falls away from the bean. A well dried bean should be an intense blueish-green. At this point we store our coffee in its white parchment shell to protect it from ambient humidity. Once coffee is dry it cannot be allowed to pick up humidity. Needless to say, this will ruin the quality and taste of your coffee. Previous | Beginning | Next