Wuhe: a tea factory with coffee beds
What a tea drying room does to a honey lot, and why the schedule is a tea schedule.
Borrowed rooms
The coffee is dried in the same building as the oolong, on racks built for tea. The rooms are warm, ventilated, and already paid for.
The advantage is control; the disadvantage is that coffee has to wait for the tea calendar.
In tea country, coffee borrows the room and the patience.
The cup
Slow, warm drying gives a soft honey lot with very little fermented edge — closer to dried fruit than to the tropical notes of a fast natural.
It is a quiet coffee, and it sells to people who already drink oolong.
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