Ethiopian Coffee Beans
$24.00 – $140.00
We taste Jammy fruits, Candied Curtis, & lots of Florals. This coffee has an abundance of complex, fruity notes to offer and a silky body and feel.
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Our Favorite Ethiopian Coffee Beans
The adjectives come easy in this aromatic dry process Ethiopia. The ground coffee is intensely sweet, candy-like, and adds a really nice dimension to the fruity smells found within. Hints of fruit preserves, red berries, and floral highlights mingle in the cup.
These Ethiopian coffee beans have a wet aroma featuring complex notes of red raspberry jam, apple tart with browned sugar, all topped off with a perfumed floral accent. The floral aroma comes through in the cup too, and brings a ripe quality to some of the fruit flavors. All of our roasts were super complex. We recommend that you stick to the light roast to capture the unique floral traits. Juicy fruits, like tangerine and grabby grapefruit brighten up the cup, while more aromatic types, like passion fruit and guava candy, make for an aromatic ‘nose’. As we settle in with the cup, we to note rustic fruits too, like natural dried apricots, and the earthy sweetness of fig jam. Pour-overs highlight acidity and aromatics, though the heavy-handed flavors are sure to come through in most any brew method.
Dry, Natural Processing
First, the coffee cherry is floated in water to remove any underripe coffee, which typically floats to the top, while the ripe coffee sinks. Once the coffee is moved to the drying tables it undergoes several more rounds of hand sorting. All of this attention lends to a fairly uniform coffee, especially when you consider it is dry process.
About Raro Boda
Raro Boda washing station is located in the village of Raro Boda, on the eastern edge of Uraga, a name quickly becoming well known for regional cup quality. This particular site buys from around 700 small scale farmers in the area, each with less than 1 hectare of coffee planted on average. Raro Boda was established in 2018, and last year saw investment in their wet processing equipment, specifically, upgrading their fermentation tanks to ceramic which is much easier to keep clean than cement. Raro Boda coffee is collected from very high altitudes surrounding the station, up to 2250 meters above sea level! They produce both wet and dry process coffee, and we were really taken by this particular dry process lot last harvest. What stood out to us was the fact that it had the best qualities of both wet and dry process coffee. It’s floral and bright, and at the same time fruit-forward, and jammy. Light roasts preferred here to capture nuanced flavors.
