Traditional Way / Dry Method

• The traditional method consists in leaving the cherries in the sun about three weeks, turning them regularly.  Then, when they are dry, they are broken and the beans are taken out of the shell.  However, the beans are often damaged, crushed or flatten in the process.  Although said to be old-fashioned, this method has certainly proved itself over the last centuries, because no other technique has ever been able to give the coffee its true flavor, body and aroma.

   

  Wet Method

  • Most coffee producers around the world now use the washed coffee technique, which consists in throwing the freshly picked cherries in a bath containing chemical products allowing the pulp to soften and be easily removed.  The advantage is that the beans are detached without too much damage. However, this alters the flavor, giving it a slightly acid taste because of the chemical products used.

Sorting the green beans

Next, the beans are carefully calibrated, separated, cleaned and sorted by hand. It is only after the final sorting, that REBO is able to obtain the finest selection of beans for its exquisite coffee “REBO Deluxe Blend” and “REBO Gourmet Espresso Blend”.  The beans that are of lesser quality are used in the production of the economical blend, “Li Pi Bon”.  This economical blend is not a bad coffee, but a coffee that doesn’t meet the “top of the line” high quality standards of the REBO brand. 

Once the last sorting is done, the beans are ready to be roasted.

 

 Coffee roasting

 It can take three months to a year and a half from the time the beans are harvested, to the moment the coffee is roasted.

In order to offer the best coffee to our consumers, REBO uses batch roasters, which roasts the coffee in small quantities at a time. This allows us to control with great precision the evolution of the roasting process, which is done at medium temperature permitting the beans to be completely roasted in a homogeneous way adding to the quality of our products.

 

For the Deluxe Blend and the Gourmet Espresso Blend, we use very high quality bags that are state of the art (aluminized, polypropylene and polyethylene equipped with a pressure release valve) to ensure a better shelf life.  They help seal the freshness inside and guarantee your exotic and unforgettable voyage with every cup.  We chose these expensive bags to make sure the coffee stays fresher for an extended period in time.