Is Co-Fermentation Cheating? Wrong Question.
The specialty coffee world is split on whether co-fermented coffee belongs in competition. The more useful question is what processing transparency should require from everyone else.
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The specialty coffee world is split on whether co-fermented coffee belongs in competition. The more useful question is what processing transparency should require from everyone else.
The specialty coffee industry solved price transparency. The harder problem, product metadata, remains relationship-gated. Across 35 suppliers, disclosure ranges from 1 to 13 attributes per listing. That gap is not an accident; it is an economic structure with beneficiaries.
The coffee belt is a useful heuristic, but the tails of the distribution reveal where quality, risk, and long-term value are really heading.
The green coffee supply chain is built for commercial buyers. If you're a hobbyist, you're an afterthought. That's the problem purveyors.io exists to solve.