World famous Coffee Tour: Yega Snow Coffee, Ethiopia (part two)

[product name]: Ethiopia Yejasuffe (Ethiopia Yirgacheffe)

[quality rating]: WP Grade 2

[baking degree]: moderate baking is recommended (Medium Roast or City Roast)

[grade]: excellent

[particles]: ★ plump

[acidity]: ★★★★ slightly sour, dark chocolate aftertaste

[equilibrium]: ★★★★ is very stable

[flavor]: very unique, delicate and rich taste, with fruit and wild flavor of the wine.

[coffee producing areas]: Gedeo District, Sidamo Province, Ethiopia (EthiopiaSidamo)

[raw bean treatment]: washing and refining method

[special point]: the coffee tree originated in Ethiopia, which was originally a wild plant here. The name "coffee" comes from the Ethiopian town "Kaffa". In fact, many coffee trees in Ethiopia are still wild plants, and the coffee grown on this coffee tree is full-grained and slightly alcoholic.

Yega Snow 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.

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.