For fully-washed beans, first of all, once picked the cherries are put in water in order to separate them out. The ripe ones will sink, whereas the poor ones will float. Then, the skin of the cherry and some of the pulp is removed from each individual bean by pressing it through a screen using a machine.
Wet-hulled" is easily confused with "wet-processed," another term for "washed," which is the world's most common coffee processing method. But the two processes produce dramatically different results: wet-hulling emphasizes body and mutes acidity, while wet-processing highlights delicate acidity and sweetness.
Honey process is a method in which coffee cherries are picked and sorted, have their skins and pulps removed like other types of coffee but are then dried without washing off the sticky-sweet outer layer of the fruit.
