How is the coffee made?

Coffee is a drink prepared from roasted seeds, commonly called coffee

beans, of the coffee plant. They are seeds of coffee cherries that grow on trees in
over 70 countries.

The biggest coffee producers are: Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia,

Ethiopia, India, Mexico, Guatemala, Peru, Honduras.

To make coffee is not a simple process. Coffee trees take 3-5 years to
produce their fruit and they require special attention.
The cherries are either picked by hand or machine harvested. Once
harvested, the fruit must be removed from the cherry to get to the beans.
Very soon after harvest, the beans have to be processed to avoid the sticky
fruit from fermenting and spoiling the beans. There are two ways of processing
beans: wet and dry.
Dry processing is a centuries old method in which the harvested beans are
laid out in the sun to dry for about 15 days. They are periodically turned and
spread to dry evenly.
Wet processing is a more modern approach which takes just some hours
after the beans have been harvested. It involves a cycle of washing and
fermentation. This processing method is preferable because it causes less damage
to the beans.
After processing, the beans are sorted and "bad" beans are discarded. The
beans that are left are bagged up and shipped.
The final and most important step is the roasting. Roasting beans requires
an exact science of time and temperature to arrive at the perfect roast. Roasting is
actually cooking the beans to a certain roast. During the process, the beans split
and the waxy coating called the "chaff" is discarded. The longer the beans are
roasted, the more their flavor is released. This is why lighter beans tend to be
milder and darker beans tend have more fullness and flavor.