Swiss Water® Decaffeinated Norwegian Wood® Blend

SWISS WATER®



Swiss Water® Decaffeinated uses a technique where fresh water is alone used to remove the caffeine from the coffee beans, and the caffeine is removed from the caffeine laden water by percolating it through activated charcoal. The beans are returned to their (caffeine removed) water bath where they reabsorb the coffee’s flavor constituents from the water.

First developed by Coffex S.A. in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1933, and originally introduced to North America, by Gillies, in 1982. Coffex sold the product under the unfortunate brand name of Secofex. It was not long before Gillies, and the American coffee companies, who followed our lead, started calling their Coffex product alternately, Water Decaffeinated, Swiss Process Decaffeinated, and Natural Water Decaffeinated. Jacobs-Souchard, a later parent of Coffee S.A. introduced the product formally to North America, manufactured in a new plant built in Burnaby, British Colombia, Canada as Swiss Water® Decaffeinated, in 1988. Klaus Johann Jacobs charged project manager, Don MacDonald, to ask Gillies’, Donald Schoenholt, to consult on the project, which Donald did as a courtesy, without fee, to help Swiss Water® find a wider audience in North America.

Swiss Water® Decaffeinated is now manufactured exclusively in North America by Swiss Water Decaffeinated Coffee Inc, www.swisswater.com , and Gillies has been a Swiss Water® Roaster for 40 year.