The bag says French, but this coffee?s journey starts in Latin America and is nothing short of extraordinary. First, ripe coffee cherries are picked by hand, and the fruit is stripped off to reveal two coffee beans inside.
The beans are processed, dried and bagged up. All this happens at small coffee farms located high in the mountains.
The beans are transported by mule, horse, cart, pickup, or even the coffee farmer?s own two feet. Add in a trip to port, a sea voyage, planes, trains, and automobiles, and the coffee arrives at the roasting factory, where it is expertly roasted to bring out its intense and smoky flavor notes.
Coffee is a brewed drink prepared from roasted coffee beans, the seeds of berries from certain Coffea species. When coffee berries turn from green to bright red in color ? indicating ripeness ? they are picked, processed, and dried.
The berries harvested from species of Coffea plants. Everyone recognizes a roasted coffee bean.
