The skin of these cherries is thick and bitter, but the fruit beneath the skin is sweet. The outer layer displays the level of ripeness- turning from light green, to yellow, to bright red.
After these coffee cherries are picked, and cleaned, they are spread out across a canvas and dried naturally under the sun.
A few days before the coffee cherries begin to form, the coffee tree produces small, white, highly fragrant flowers.
We traveled to our farms to gain a more thorough understanding of the
coffee process. Now we'd like to share these images with you. Please enjoy, as you experience the growing of Iron Brew Coffee beans.
From Flowers...
To Yellow Cherries...
To Red Cherries...
The coffee plants are kept well watered
with irrigation.
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The bright red coffee cherries, almost fully mature, encompass two halves of a seed. These are raw, green coffee beans.
After the raw, green beans are cleaned, dried and sorted, they are stored in 60kg burlap bags and ready for exporting to our Blythewood, SC roaster facility.
Highly skilled experts sort and grade our beans.
The cultivating process takes about 9 months from the time the flowers appear, to when the berries are ripe and ready for harvesting.
Harvesting the farms in the Cerrado requires quality maintenance, as the savannah soil is dry.
As you can see, coffee in the Cerrado is grown in spaced rows. These rows span on for miles of cultivated land.
To Green
Cherries...
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