119 roasters on Bean Clarity sell at least one Swiss Water decaf, 168 coffees in all, counting UK and Irish roasters with the coffee in stock when we last looked. Where the roaster says how a coffee was decaffeinated, sugarcane (ethyl acetate) is named most often and Swiss Water comes second. The full list, priced per kilo, is below.
What Swiss Water decaf is
Swiss Water is a decaffeination process that uses water and filtering rather than chemical solvents. The company that runs it says it removes 99.9% of the caffeine. Roasters name it because buyers ask for it. For how every method works, see how decaf coffee is made.
How the decafs here were decaffeinated
| Stated method | Coffees |
|---|---|
| Sugarcane (ethyl acetate) | 289 |
| Swiss Water | 168 |
| Mountain Water | 97 |
| CO2 | 28 |
Another 261 decafs from the same roasters do not say how they were made, which is common, and they are left out of the list below rather than guessed at.
What Swiss Water decaf costs
The median Swiss Water decaf we can price costs £35.98/kg, against £37.50/kg for the decafs we can price as a whole, both taken at the cheapest bag each roaster sells. That gap compares prices, not quality: it says nothing about how any of these coffees taste.
Every roaster selling Swiss Water decaf
Listed in alphabetical order. Bean Clarity does not rank coffee by quality. Every decaf, with price filters, is on the decaf page.
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The decaf page lists all 1331 decaf coffees we have collected, with price filters. For how decaf is made, see how decaf coffee is made; for decaf prices across the catalogue, see the decaf median.