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Coffee fermentation and processing
After harvest, coffee fruit is fermented by its own yeasts and bacteria before it is dried, either inside the whole cherry (natural or dry process) or as pulped beans in a tank (washed process). The steps here follow the natural process; the cherries ferment as they lose water, and they must reach below 12.5 % moisture quickly to keep out the moulds that make ochratoxin A. Made in 5 steps over 11 days – 14 days. The longest step, dry quickly to safe moisture, takes 8.9 days (Moncayo-Palacios M.F. et al. 2025) and runs at 24–42 °C (Moncayo-Palacios M.F. et al. 2025). Yeasts Debaryomyces, Pichia and Candida, which become more common as the fruit dries and Bacillus and other Gram-positive bacteria, most numerous at the start of natural processing do most of the fermenting.
No fixed amounts recordedFarm process with no fixed batch; drying layers of 3 to 5 cm hold about 25 to 35 kg of fruit per square metre.
Ripe coffee cherries · Sorted to remove unripe, overripe and diseased fruit, by hand or by floating in water[codex-ota]
No additions · Natural fermentation uses the fruit's own microbes; some producers add yeast starters or seal the fruit under CO2[moncayo2025][silva2008]
Starter: spontaneous; also defined yeast starters and CO2 atmospheres in experimental lots
Total time across the recorded steps: 11 days – 14 days
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What changes:Starting material: ripe red coffee cherries, sorted from green and overripe ones
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Pick and sort ripe cherries
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Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Aspergillus can
Cherries should be dried the same day they are picked; holding fruit in bags or heaps for up to a week heats it and starts an uncontrolled ferment that raises the ochratoxin risk.
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Microbes at work in this step
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Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
In the natural process the beans ferment inside the whole, drying fruit, so the pulp's sugars and microbes act on the bean for days. In the washed process the fruit is pulped first and only the mucilage ferments, for 12 to 36 hours in a tank, before washing and drying.
Washed (wet) processThe cherry is pulped and the mucilage-coated beans ferment in tanks for 12 to 36 hours, then are washed and dried; see the coffee wet-process entry.
Honey or pulped naturalThe skin is removed but some or all of the mucilage is left on the beans as they dry.
Self-induced anaerobic fermentationFruit or pulped beans are sealed in tanks or bags so the microbes' own CO2 pushes out the air; see the SIAF entry.
Carbonic maceration and CO2-sealed naturalsWhole cherries are held under added CO2 before drying, a method borrowed from wine.
Monsooned MalabarDried coffee is exposed to monsoon air in India; an ageing process rather than a ferment.
Kopi luwakCherries pass through the gut of the Asian palm civet before the beans are collected.
Safety
Codex links ochratoxin A in coffee to slow drying. Dry cherries the day they are picked, keep the time in the risky water-activity range to 5 days or less, and bring the beans below 12.5 % moisture (water activity 0.67 to 0.70) before storage.
Hazards the sources name: Ochratoxin A from Aspergillus ochraceus and related species, A. niger and A. carbonarius.
Codex describes two basic systems, the dry process that gives natural coffee and the wet process that gives washed coffee. Recent farm trials compare open, sealed and CO2-flushed fermentation of natural coffee to steer its flavour.