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When I first arrived The Producer
in Europe, I have to admit,
that even for me that had a As it is stated, and very clearly, the producer is the one actually
history in coffee, it was producing the coffee. A producer is the face behind your coffee, the alpha.
not completely clear how Being the coffee treated for decades as a mere commodity, the producer,
did the coffee chain was among the most forgotten actors. Except for big leaflets explaining
worked and role we as soap operas of charity with hat, machete & mustache included. A pro-
consumers play in it. So ducer, is a grower. A grower of cherries. They can or not have the capac-
who are the people ity of processing those cherries. In any case, the producer or the person
involved in the coffee processing the cherry in case is not him/her, is what we call a miller.
chain and how do they
influence it? Let’s start 2 The Wet Miller
from the beginning.
inventory management, A miller can do wet, or dry milling. The wet miller, would receive
offer coffee subscriptions. the cherry, and process it in order to obtain a parchment. They can pro-
cess by any of the different processing methods known: washed, natural
& intermediate (honey, for example) ones. Their final result, would be
the parchment/dried cherry.

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