Honey process
The cherry skin is removed but some or all of the sticky mucilage ('honey') is left on the bean during drying, sitting between washed and natural in method and typical flavour outcome.
Steps
- Depulping
- Partial mucilage retention
- Drying with mucilage present
- Typical duration
- 7-14 days
Possible flavour influence
- often described as sitting between washed and natural in sweetness and body
Inferred, not independently verified — Widely described this way in industry practice; not independently verified against a controlled source here.