Our process starts where many farms leave off– with the leftovers. And when we’re done, we process our own byproduct substances so they can return to our farm partners, like a nutrient-dense vitamin for the soil.
Nearly every agricultural crop leaves organic matter on the cutting room floor. Husks, leaves, crowns and peels are all typical byproducts on farms. That leftover material can be rich in carbohydrates, and we work with those carbohydrates to make alcohol.
At harvest, coffee fruit has roughly the same sugar content as a grape. Our coffee fruit is handpicked by the farmers of Cafe de Altura, a co-op in Costa Rica. The fruit is fed through the co-op’s mill, where the husk is removed from the coffee bean.
We work with our partners, Poas Bionergy, to squeeze the juice from the coffee husk. We also collect the water used to wash any remaining pulp from the beans. The combined liquid is rich in sugar. At this stage, we transport it to our distillery.
At our distillery, we pasteurize the liquid and use a special strain of yeast to kick-start a fermentation. This part of the process looks a lot like making wine. Alcohol is produced now as the yeast begins to consume the fermentable sugars.
Our four-column continuous distillation system picks up where the fermentation leaves off, precisely heating the liquid to isolate and separate ethanol. At this stage, we can manipulate the distillation to produce brandies, gins, or high-proof neutral ethanol.
Our core product is +95% a.b.v., and is designed as a sustainable, 1-to-1 counterpoint to neutral grain spirit. We collect it in large, FDA-grade stainless steel vats for future packaging and export.
The liquid leftover at the end of a distilling cycle–known colloquially as stillage–is dense with nutrients and, with a little processing, ready to be re-integrated into soil or fed to farm animals. Ours is returned to the same farms from which our coffee fruit originated.
Distilled from 100% coffee fruit byproducts, and sourced exclusively from Rainforest Alliance-certified farms, Neutrality Co.’s core alcohol product is an appropriate replacement for nearly any grain ethanol use case. And best of all, every drop is carbon-neutral by design.
-Gluten-Free
-FDA Certified
-Non-GMO Certified
-Kosher Certified
