Swiss Water Process: Origins and Production

By using the Swiss Water Process, the caffeine is extracted from the green unroasted beans, leaving the beans of 99.9& free of it.

A recognizable characteristic of coffee is the wide array of flavors you can obtain from one single bean. From a strong bitter taste to a soft acid flavor, there are different tastes for each customer. It’s important to note that certain coffee lovers would rather drink their coffee decaffeinated. For them, there are many options to get their beans free of caffeine, but today I’ll focus on Swiss Water process, a chemical-free procedure.

Origins

Pioneered in Switzerland back in 1933, this decaffeination process was pretty exclusive and not sustainable at first. It became commercially viable thanks to Coffex S. A. in 1980. The Swiss Water method itself was launched to the market in 1988, earning a lot of demand and representing a standard of decaffeination.

The Swiss Water Process

This method of decaffeination is different from the typical as it doesn’t directly or indirectly add chemicals in the process of extracting the caffeine. On the contrary, it depends completely on two concepts: solubility and osmosis, which are in charge of decaffeinating coffee beans.

First, a batch of beans is soaked in very hot water; this dissolves the caffeine. After that, the water is drawn off and passes through a charcoal filter. The filter is made perfectly sized and designed to capture larger caffeine molecules, and it allows smaller oil and flavor molecules to pass through it.

At this part, we have beans with no caffeine and no flavor in one tank, and a tank filled with flavors but caffeine-free. The second tank’s content is denominated the “Green Coffee Extract.”

Here’s an interesting part of the process. All these flavorless beans are discarded, but the Green Coffee Extract is reused in a fresh batch of green coffee beans.

When being exposed to this water, caffeine from the coffee beans moves to the water, and because of the saturation of flavor ingredients in the water, the beans won’t lose the flavors in the process.

Swiss Water Process ensures a coffee that is 99.9% caffeine-free through a non-solvent method. Most industries buy decaffeinated beans that undergo the SWP, because of the quality results. One that really takes the advantage is That Coffee Roasters, as they use these beans to produce the best decaffeinated roasted beans in the market. Contact them and have a taste of the best coffee!

This process guarantees coffee of the best quality. As no chemical solvents are used, the product's characteristics remain untouched.

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