Introduction to Sidamo Gedeo District, Sidamo Province, Ye Jia Xue Coffee production area

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Ye Jia Xue Coffee producing area Sidamo Gedeo District, Sidamo Province

Today, Ethiopia is an important coffee producer, with about 12 million people engaged in coffee production and a major exporter of Arabica coffee beans in Africa. The high-quality coffee here is of excellent quality and is worth looking for. Various forms of coffee cultivation can be found in Ethiopia: everything from wild coffee forests and semi-developed land to traditionally operated plots to modern plantations. About 50% of the coffee is grown more than 1500 meters above sea level.

One of the rarest Ethiopian coffee beans on the market is Yirgachaffe, which is exported to Japan and Europe but is rarely seen in the United States. This is because Dallmeyer, the German coffee roaster owned by Nestle, has established close ties with the growers of Yega Snow Coffee, thus obtaining the largest single supply of the coffee beans.

Although the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee is petite, it is gentle and delicate and sweet. As the hometown of coffee, thousands of years of planting history and processing tradition in Ethiopia have created high-quality washed Arabica beans. Light baking has unique sweet aromas of lemon, flowers and honey, soft acidity and citrus flavors, fresh and bright on the palate. No milk or sugar, let the rich texture and unique soft flower scent brush your taste buds, leaving an endless aftertaste.

Yejaschefine is the representative of East African boutique coffee (specialty coffee). It has a very special and unusual aroma of citrus fruit and flowers, which makes it one of the most distinctive coffee in the world, which is rare and expensive. It is produced in the highland of sidamo province, Ethiopia (4000 feet above sea level), in a relatively high and narrow area. Yejasuffe is of high quality that is difficult for the general mocha to reach.

At first, Yejassefi's coffee trees were planted by European monks (a bit like Belgian monks growing wheat to brew beer), and later by farmers or cooperatives. Yejia Chuefei is actually constructed by surrounding coffee communities or cooperatives, including Edido Idido, Hafusa Harfusa, Hama Hama and Biloya near Fog Valley Misty valley, all washed with water, but there are also a small number of off-product beans engraved with sun to enhance the charming fruit aroma and mellow thickness. These mountain villages are foggy, like spring all year round, with a gentle breeze in summer, cool but not hot, rain but not damp, and no cold damage in winter, giving birth to a unique regional flavor of citrus and flowers. Coffee trees are mostly planted in farmers' own backyard or mixed with other crops in the field, the yield per household is not much, it is a typical rural coffee. Yega Xuefei won the prize beans almost from the above-mentioned coffee villages and communities.

The so-called "Yega Chuefei" refers to the strong aromas of jasmine, lemon or lime acid, as well as peach, almond or tea. On the other hand, the smell of blueberries is particularly prominent this season, and the room is full of blueberries after grinding.

The phrase "coffee entrance, flowers in full bloom" is best described, just as flowers promote the comfort of taste buds and olfactory cells in the nasal cavity. In addition to the fragrance of flowers, the delicate thickness of body, like silk massage in the mouth, feels wonderful. At present, many coffee chemists begin to study the microclimate and soil and water around Yega Xuefei, in order to sum up the planting equation of fine coffee. Yejia Xuefei can be divided into two categories according to the different ways of handling raw coffee beans:

Category An is the washing method, and the grade standard is set by the American Fine Coffee Society SCAA. It is divided into Gr-1;Gr-2. The smaller the Arabic numeral is, the higher the grade is. The style of G1 Yega Chuefei is distinct. The flavor of citrus and floral flavor in the coffee liquid is an irresistible delicacy for everyone.

Category B is sun-treated coffee raw beans, and the grade is Gr-1;Gr-3;Gr-4;Gr-5. Similarly, the highest grade of G1 sun Yega Chuefei is fruity. Opening the freshly roasted G1 sun Yega Chevy coffee bag can subvert people's original understanding of coffee. Only those who have tasted the highest grade sun Yega Chevy will believe that coffee is a kind of fruit.

The main producing areas of Ethiopian coffee are Harald (Harar) in the east, Djimmah (southwest) and Sidamo (south). The unique fragrance of Yirgacheffe comes from Yirga, a small town in the northwest of Sidamo province. Yirgacheffe coffee raw bean is one of the most distinctive coffee in the world, rare and expensive. It is produced in the plateau of Ethiopia's Sidamo province (2000 meters above sea level). It is an outstanding representative of washed coffee in Africa. It has always been famous in the eyes of global coffee connoisseurs. Rare washed high-quality Elaraby plus coffee, suitable for all degrees of baking, perfectly showing a fresh and bright aroma of flowers and fruits. Beautiful and complete bean shape, is the general mocha incomparable high-grade coffee. It has unique fruit aromas of citrus and lemon, with aromas of jasmine, sour taste similar to wine, clean and unmixed taste, just like freshly boiled citrus fruit tea with a long finish. Full of floral and citrus aroma, the performance is exciting, moderate roasting has a soft sour taste, deep roasting gives off a strong aroma, rich and uniform taste is the most attractive feature of Ethiopian Yega snow coffee, known as the best coffee beans in Ethiopia, is the representative of East African boutique coffee, and Yega snow coffee is the most unique flavor in the world today.

Most of the refining methods of Yirgacheffe are water washing (washed), which is fermented and shelled in the washing tank for about 72 hours and dried directly outside the plant. After the raw beans are manually selected and qualified by the Ethiopian Coffee Cocoa Management Agency, they are traded and exported through competitive bidding. Its annual output is about 225000 bags (each bag of 60kg). In the past, it was mainly sold to Northern Europe (mainly Germany) and Japan, and recently it has gradually attracted the attention of North America.

In Ethiopia's coffee grading system, washing Grade 2 and dry Grade 4 are the highest grades, so there was only Yirgacheffe WP G2 on the market in the past.

Note: Yirgacheffe G1 is a grade specially made by Mitsubishi of Japan to Ethiopia Coffee&Tea Authority. It first appeared on the market in 2002-03. The method of producing G1 grade beans is not the same as the general screening, but from the raw beans in the Knoga area with the highest elevation and good soil in Yirga village, which is strictly hand-selected. The size of the raw beans is almost the same, the appearance is quite beautiful, and there are almost no defective beans, and it is more likely to show the characteristics of Yirgacheffe after drinking. Also because of the strict production process, the annual production of Yirgacheffe G1 is very rare, with an average of about 600 bags.