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Sumatra triage/lowest grade coffee, export error

Postby farmroast on Sat Sep 24, 2011 10:21 am

From Tom at SM, "Sample of 16 containers triage Sumatra shipped to US, was supposed to be G1 FTO coffee. Oops"
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Postby blzrfn on Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:07 pm

Wow, is that the "green" coffee or a sample that came out of his roaster after the drying phase? I double dog dare ya to drink a cup!
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Postby another_jim on Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:40 pm

This is the stuff, if it gets exported at all, that becomes instant and Folgers. Since taste is not an issue, the institutional roasters can sort the coffees, at mega-plants that process them by the container, more cheaply than at origin.
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Postby genovese on Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:54 pm

Whoa. I thought the "forest floor" in Sumatras was metaphoric; this looks like the real thing.
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Postby Randy G. on Sat Sep 24, 2011 2:53 pm

I have thrown away better coffee than that.
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Postby Marshall on Sat Sep 24, 2011 3:52 pm

farmroast wrote:From Tom at SM, "Sample of 16 containers triage Sumatra shipped to US, was supposed to be G1 FTO coffee. Oops"
triage green coffee

Thanks for the link! I just added the photo to a lecture I'm giving on the history of coffee. If I do my job right, the instant coffee drinkers in the audience will turn the same color as those beans.
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Postby another_jim on Sat Sep 24, 2011 4:44 pm

In all fairness, it's not entirely clear how many of these beans get into the instant plant, and how many are sorted away.

The other fun fact about instant is that the "yield" is now up to 55%, while we poor bozos are stuck at only extracting a mere 20%.
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Postby farmroast on Sat Sep 24, 2011 7:00 pm

I'd think beans like this kind of stuff would be for coffee by-products? caffeine additives etc,
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