Glossary

Discover the most used words in the world of coffee

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Washing Station

A coffee washing station (or wet mill) is a processing facility, common in East Africa and other coffee-growing regions, where smallholder farmers deliver harvested cherries to be pulped, fermented, washed, and dried. These stations remove the fruit flesh and mucilage, leaving the seed in parchment, and are crucial for quality control, sorting, and transforming raw<a href="https://www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com/en/glossario/washing-station/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"Washing Station"</span></a>

Water

The solvent used to prepare coffee-based drinks and also their main ingredient. Water makes up 90% of the content of an espresso, a figure that rises as high as 98% in the case of filterextraction.As such, water affects the extraction of every coffee, in terms of the quantity and quality of the substances extracted from<a href="https://www.lepiantagionidelcaffe.com/en/glossario/water/">Continue reading <span class="sr-only">"Water"</span></a>

Weave

In relation to espresso, this term refers to the consistency and composition of the crema. The crema of an espresso extracted from an Arabica coffee usually has a fine weave and is very glossy, while espresso extracted from Robusta has a looser weave.