Two people holding cups of coffee - Liquid Sky Studio/Getty Images Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee bean ...

Coffee beans go through a lot of changes before reaching your cup. The coffee-roasting process takes the original green coffee bean and transforms it into the light, medium, or dark versions made for ...

When it comes to processing coffee beans, longer fermentation times can result in better taste, contrary to conventional wisdom. Lactic acid bacteria play an important, positive role in this process.