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Decaf Coffee

12oz. • Freshly Roasted • Swiss Water Process
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Decaf Coffee

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Swiss Water Process

How does it work?

The Swiss Water Process is different from most decaffeination processes in that it does not directly or indirectly add chemicals to extract the caffeine. Rather, it relies entirely on two concepts, namely solubility and osmosis, to decaffeinate coffee beans.

It begins by soaking a batch of beans in very hot water in order to dissolve the caffeine. The water is then drawn off and passed through a carbon filtration system. The porosity of this filter is sized to only capture larger caffeine molecules, while allowing smaller oil and flavor molecules to pass through it.

Consequently we end up with beans with no caffeine and no flavor in one tank, and caffeine-free “flavor charged” water (aka “Green Coffee Extract”) in another tank. The flavorless caffeine-free beans are then discarded, but the flavor rich water is reused to remove the caffeine from a fresh, new batch of coffee beans. Since this water already is saturated with flavor ingredients, the flavors in this fresh batch can’t dissolve; only caffeine moves from the coffee beans to the water.

The result is decaffeination without a massive loss of flavor. This method is almost exclusively used for decaffeination of organic coffee. Coffee decaffeinated using the environment-friendly Swiss Water Process undergoes regular caffeine level audits to ensure compliance to 99.9% caffeine-free.

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