Introduction and description of the flavor and taste of Sidama coffee beans in Gedeo, Ethiopia

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Ethiopian Sidamo-Gedeo sun-dried beans

Ethiopia is the country where coffee was first discovered, and it is the most important producing country in terms of coffee quality and output. Coffee is mostly traditional Arabica species, with an annual output of about 350000 tons, more than 80% of which are exported to countries around the world. About 15 million people in the country are engaged in this industry, and more than 90% of them are small-area wild coffee farmers. The joint cooperative is a window for several to dozens of farmers to work together to facilitate sales.

Crops produced in Ethiopia in 2008, including wheat, corn, sesame, coffee and so on, were fully imported into ECX's trading system (Ethiopian Commodity Exchange) to replace the ancient auction and export methods. Coffee farmers or cooperatives sent coffee to warehouses concentrated in ECX. Beans of the same grade and producing areas were mixed and auctioned. You don't know which farmers or cooperatives produced it. In fact, this practice has no effect on output and quality, and it is easier to distinguish the quality of coffee by price. What is aroused is that coffee bean merchants cannot directly know which one is convenient for farmers or cooperatives to trade, because those who do not go through the ECX trading system will be heavily taxed. Nowadays, more than 90% of the coffee is through this trading system. But for buyers of boutique coffee ECX trading system is not a good thing, so from 2010 Ethiopia launched the DST (Direct Specialty Trade) system, DST system is an irregular Ethiopian auction, only through the SCAA cup test standard of more than 80 points of fine caffeine specialty coffee can hang its own name with foreign raw bean merchants to trade, and the small quantity, quality of the United cooperative is the target of many foreign buyers.

This batch from Sidamo, Ethiopia, the Gedeo region of the southeastern plateau, are sun beans of wild traditional tree species. Coffee grows in primeval forests. No one will deliberately take care of these humble but God-given treasures. Hard-working women pick up these coffees and dry them on the hard land in front of their houses. These processes have not changed with the ancestors' methods of making them. These are primitive Ethiopian sun beans.

Property Characteristics: farm characteristics

Farm Farm name: Michelle Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union

Farmer Farm owner: Various small producers different kinds of small farmers

Grade level: G1

Region producing area: Idido, Gedeo Zone

Country country: Ethiopia

Altitude altitude: 1850-2100 m

Farm Size Farm size: 750ha

Coffee Characteristics: coffee characteristics

Variety varieties: a mixture of local ancient and traditional varieties of Mixed Heirloom Variety

Processing System treatment: Natural natural sun

Harvest period harvest time: October every year to January of the following year

Appearance appearance: 15 eyes

Aroma aroma / flavor flavor: strawberry, biscuit, fermented flavor, mango, banana, pineapple, black tea ripe tea, Earl Grey Tea, chocolate, honey,

Acidity: plum, cherry, orange, red malic acid, single malt tartaric acid

The complexity of complex is similar to that of other: meticulous, very clean and consistent, rich and firm taste, intense tropical fermented fruit, sweet aftertaste of toffee.