Origin: Yirgacheffe
Producer: Tadese Yonka on the Harbegona farm
Growing altitude: 2100 – 2300 m.a.s.l.
Varieties: Heirloom, gr 1 (washed)
Harvested: 2023/2024
Imagine a lush garden in southern Ethiopia. There are avocados, bananas, corn, guava… And coffee. Families eat most of it themselves, but they sell the best of the coffee berries. Often they have about a hectare of coffee plantation each, which allows them to pay close attention to each bush in the family’s quest to get as much money as possible for the production. Specialty coffee of the highest grade pays the best and that is exactly what we have in front of us this month.
The small-scale farmers have taken the freshly harvested coffee berries to Tadese Yonka at the Harbegona farm in Sidamo. He then sorts the berries into different lots. He washes off the skin and pulp before drying the beans on raised Ethiopian beds, because the method comes from here. This is Ethiopian coffee at its best.
Roast just as you like, as light roast it becomes incomparable both for filter brewing and espresso. Dark roasted, it’s full-bodied and deep when you filter it, and lightly processed, still with Ethiopian attributes, at your espresso machine. As a medium roast, the milk chocolate interacts with ripe peach. The sweetness is catacteristically vanilla and the floral elderflower aromas are ever present.
A classic Ethiopian, much harder to find at a decent price today than just a few years ago.* But they are out there, we just have to search longer and longer with each passing year.
This green coffee arrived at the roastery on June 19 and is from the 2023/2024 harvest.
* Why is that?
That it is getting tougher and tougher to find Ethiopian coffee at affordable prices? Our analysis is firstly that the bureaucracy in the country has become more difficult for farmers, that it has simply become more expensive for coffee farmers to be coffee farmers. Secondly, we suspect that the younger generation, like the one in neighboring Kenya, is fleeing their parents’ coffee bushes in favor of a life that is more attractive. Third, we currently have the currency and transportation against us. It hits across the board, but it becomes more in absolute terms the more expensive the coffee we buy.
/Fredrik, Kafferosteriet Koppar
€26.50
€26.50
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