Coffee Processing

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Coffee Processing

at

Boquete, Panama

 

visit to Cafe Ruiz
(producer of over two million lbs of green bean coffee)

 

 beans on the coffee tree

 

young trees being grown from beans

 

blossoms

 

to ripe beans

 

the measure of picked coffee beans
(one red measure makes up to 10 in large container)

 

for separating immature beans from ripe fruit and removing red pulp

 

sizing the beans in a water stream

 

removing the outer soft layer

 

after drying, removing the hull to reduce shipping weight of green beans

 

green bean storage

 

no lunch during 2nd and 3rd shifts in this facility

 

coffee roaster

 

small roaster for taste development

 

mechanized packaging machine
(for visitors to take Ruiz coffee all over the World)

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