TANKAR Production

1. To grow beautiful coffee you need a beautiful place

2. This is how we grow our babies until we can plant them

3. When big enough they grow in the shade of banana trees, with pineapples, beans, carrots, maize

4. Like in every family, some of our children grow faster and ripe earlier, others need the safety of the mother tree a little longer

5. We only process the perfect & ripe cherries with full flavour and therefore we pick the beans by hand

6. Traditional handcrafted sun drying needs a lot of care and the small famers have to turn the coffee every day for up to four weeks

7. The dried cherries are now 'pulped' to split the golden-brown bean from its safety cherry-body

8. The 'pulper' is a small wheel that squeezes the bean out of the cherry

9. Tasty cherries and their cover are spitted but still mixed together

10. The 'bean-shaker' shakes the cherry skin into the middle and separates from our desired golden-coffee beans at the borders

11. The cherries skins are now re-used in our families gardens for composting or for heating

12. The beans can now be collected

13. The last quality control sorts a last time to get the high TANKAR quality

14. The coffee is now ready for roasting

15. Packed for high quality roasters everywhere on the planet