#coffee drying

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‘Organic Coffee Volunteer Project’, Atenas, Costa Rica, January 2011.

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What's that I hear you saying? You can't get enough coffee drying videos? Well then here's a mechanical coffee drier. Part way through you can see a pit underneath where the coffee will fall to be transported through pipes to other parts of the facility after the coffee is dry.

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Do you like watching coffee dry? Here's more video of coffee drying. Same patio as the previous video. No volcano. In the distance you can see some pulped natural and fully washed coffees also getting dry.

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Here we see a coffee drying method that I haven't often seen. When there's a shortage of patio space you'll sometimes see coffee dried with the "volcano method," named after the shape the coffee is piled in. Coffee must be periodically turned over to ensure even drying and the way it is done in this method is to rake the coffee into the center of the ring and then push it back out. Normally coffee is spread out in a much thinner layer for drying as that works better, but it requires much more space. This is a natural coffee, meaning it is being dried with the fruit still covering the seeds. The dried fruit will be removed prior to export. (I'm assuming that happened a long time ago as I took took this video in 2012 and just didn't get around to uploading it until today.)

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