Snap Specialty Coffee: Ethiopian specialty coffee exporter

hand PICKED

Our coffee used selective harvesting, picking of only ripe coffee fruit by hand. Unripe coffee is left on the tree for future harvesting. Overripe coffee is picked and kept separate from the ripe fruit. Pickers spend the day picking ripe fruit and filling their baskets. Full baskets are periodically emptied into a larger collection bag. At the end of the day, the harvest is spread out and unripe or overripe fruit as well as any foreign debris that accidentally made their way into the ripe coffee are culled.

SNAP SPECiALITY COFFEE

SNAP has enabled importers to satisfy their guests with one of the perfect world-class coffee through our competitive edges across the supply chain as well as the art of doing business.

PROCESSING METHODS

WASHED PROCESSING

During, processing the skin of the fresh cherry is physically removed using a pulp machine and water. The coffee is then fermented under water for 24-36 hours, depending on the weather conditions. During the process sugar coating or mucilage around the parchment is removed during the fermentation process. Once fermentation is completed the parchment is thoroughly washed. It’s then graded in washing channels in to two grades based on density, and then soaked under clean spring water in tanks for 12-24 hours to remove all traces of fermented mucilage. Washed coffees tend to have a pronounced acidity and a delicate, complex flavor profile.

NATURAL PROCESSING

Coffee is naturally dried; coffee cherries are picked and spread out on to African drying beds after harvest with the coffee fruit and mucilage (that sticky layer just under the skin) still on the bean. The coffee processed naturally is known for their deeply sweet and fruity, full-bodied characteristics, reminiscent of a deep flavor. Once dried, the fruit and mucilage are then removed from around the coffee seed all at once. Common flavor profiles include blueberry, strawberry, and/or tropical sweetness and acidity.

Carbonic Maceration

Carbonic Maceration is a process that leads to fermentation involving whole coffee cherries

(unruptured cherries) with intact in an Anaerobic (oxygen free) environment of Carbon

dioxide (Co2) in a closed container.

Anaerobic Fermentation

Anaerobic (oxygen-free) fermentation is a new method where the coffee is processed in a fully sealed and oxygen deprived fermentation tank. … This experimental process yields unexpected and complex flavours, while also giving the producer great control over the sugars, temperature, pressure, pH and length of the ferment.