You've likely seen the three principal styles listed on a bag of high quality coffee: washed, semi-washed, and natural ...

As much as the best baristas in America can control a cup of coffee when the kettles are steaming and the scales are beeping, the fate of a bean is sealed far earlier, while still in its green ...

Generally, you can expect washed coffees to exhibit higher levels of acidity (what Vonie and other coffee experts often call “brightness”). Their cleaner and lighter body leads to a more consistent ...

Coffee is getting complicated ... borrows a little from both the natural and washed methods. The beans are dried while varying amounts of sticky mucilage still clings to them, like the natural ...

But some of its beans, known as unwashed or ‘natural’ arabicas ... exchange has traditionally reflected premium grade coffee, known as washed arabica because of a technique using water ...