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One in five coffees in ICB's catalog now carries an experimental process tag. This is a reference guide to the four categories (anaerobic, carbonic maceration, double fermented, and experimental), covering how each works at the fermentation level, which Indian estates and regions produce them, and what the catalog data says about their flavor patterns.
Every coffee ferments — the variable is how. Understanding the microbial chemistry behind washed, natural, and anaerobic processing explains why the same estate can produce a clean chocolate cup and a grape-forward lot from the same harvest. This article maps the mechanism to the label, with data from ICB's catalog of 1,238 Indian coffees.
