LoCo Beans® — Fresh Roasted Coffee, Inc.

LoCo News (November 14th) — Looking ahead to the Thanksgiving weekend, Loco Beans will be closed on Thursday November 28th. But we will have normal operating hours on Wednesday November 27th as well as Black Friday November 29th and the weekend.

We have been roasting a new crop of the 100% Kona Natural that went through the dried-in-the-fruit “natural” process that created a crisply sweet, low-toned cup with a quiet background of acidity. These beans will be carefully roasted to preserve notes of chocolate, sweet lime, and buttery cashew nut.

Besides the Kona Natural, we have now gotten back in our inventory the Kona Prime, Screen 16+ (washed) coffee that we will be using for the Kona Blends.

- Chau & Paul

P.S. Many customers have brought to our attention that they couldn’t see the Local Pickup option in the Shop page so we have added a new addition to the FAQ page on how to choose Local Pickup .

(To understand the honey process, it helps to be familiar with the two opposite poles of typical coffee processing: washed coffee and natural process. In a washed coffee, the pulp (skin), fruit, and mucilage surrounding the coffee bean are mechanically removed from the coffee cherry after it is picked from the coffee treelet. The remaining seeds within, aka coffee beans, are then washed and fermented in tanks and then dried. In a natural process, coffee is set out in the sun with the skin and flesh of the coffee fruit, also called a coffee “cherry”, still on it. This can impart particular flavors to the bean which some find fruity, complex, and interesting.

Then there’s the honey process, which is somewhere in between. In honey processing, the pulp (skin) and fruit are removed from the coffee cherry, leaving a thin layer of sticky mucilage. In a washed process coffee, this mucilage would be cleaned off completely before drying, but in honey processing, some amount of it is left on during the drying stage. This results in a coffee that’s typically juicy, slightly fruity, and fuller-bodied.)