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Ethiopian Coffee recommendation Yega Xuefei Aricha handmade parameters recommended Flavor introduction

Published: 2024-09-20 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2024/09/20, Professional barista communication please follow the coffee workshop (Wechat official account cafe_style) Yega Xuefei ARICHA than the ordinary washed G2 Chefe, its taste is clearer and flawless, with a charming girl smile sweet, bright, delicate citric acid, elegant taste, fresh lemon, jasmine, ginger and other flowers and with a hint of honey make people feel refreshed all day

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Yega Xuefei ARICHA

Compared with the ordinary washed G2 Chevy, its taste is more clear and flawless, with a charming girl smile, bright, delicate citric acid, elegant taste, fresh lemon, jasmine, ginger and other flowers with a hint of honey make people relaxed and happy all day.

Yega Xuefei is a small town, 700-2100 meters above sea level, synonymous with Ethiopian boutique coffee. It has been a wetland since ancient times. The ancient saying "Yirga" means "settle down" and "Cheffe" means "wetland". The mode of production and flavor of coffee here are so outstanding that Ethiopian coffee farmers compete to be proud of the flavor of their own coffee. To become the most famous coffee producing area in Africa, Ethiopia's Yirgacheffe coffee is delicate, 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 flowers brush through your taste buds, leaving an endless aftertaste Yega Xuefei exudes an extremely complex aroma, showing an extremely excellent taste, which is difficult to describe. In general, the dry aroma of Yega Chuefei is full of fruit, with strong aromas of dried fruit, strawberry, mango and apricot jam. Wet fragrance is like sweet syrup, like sticky apricot juice, wrapped in plain honey or chocolate. The entrance is not strong, the alcohol thickness is medium, the sour taste is not obvious, but it is lively and bright, like fruit black tea. Yejasuefei's grading system is not distinguished by the number of eyes, but according to the proportion of defective beans in the total number of raw beans. Commonly seen are washing G2 and sunbathing G3 Yega Chuefei, G1 is the highest grade, Yega Xuefei, which has the lowest defect rate and the best quality, can be rated as Grade 1 only after hand selection.

Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Aricha G1

Country: Ethiopia

Grade: G1

Producing area: Yega Xuefei Gediyo

Altitude: 1900-2100 m

Treatment: insolation

Variety: original species

Producer: Kebel Aricha

Flavor: light fermented wine, sweet orange, spices, honey sweet

This batch is produced at the Kebel Aricha processing plant, where there are about 650,700 small coffee farmers who send ripe coffee berries here for processing in exchange for cash. After the treatment plant selects the available berries, they are directly exposed to the sun on the scaffolding and are turned every 2-3 hours in the first few days to prevent overfermentation. After four to six weeks of sun exposure, the workers will scrape off the outer pulp with a machine according to the weather and temperature, and then transport it to addis for storage. Usually, sun-treated beans are stored in the form of shell beans, and they are not shelled until they are exported to ensure the quality of raw beans. This batch of Sunshine Eriga is rated as G1 by ECX. It is excellent in appearance, consistency, freshness, dry aroma and flavor of raw beans. You can't miss those who like bright acidity and strong berry flavor.

Flavor description: light fermented wine, jujube, sweet orange tone, dark berries, litchi, carambola, peach, peach, longan jujube, honey sweet, cocoa with a hint of spice, body thick and lasting

About Project Origin

The winner of the Sasa Sestic,2015 World Barista Competition and his business team ONA Coffee started a raw bean shopping program called Project Origin three years ago. The project works directly with coffee growers in poor countries and regions to improve their production conditions and give them a purchase price 20% higher than the fair trade price.

The original intention of the project also includes strengthening the links between roasters and coffee farmers and guiding coffee farmers to grow high-quality coffee beans. So far, Sasa has established relationships with coffee growers from eight countries, including Brazil, Panama, India, Ethiopia, El Salvador and Costa Rica.

Hand-washed Yega Xuefei Aricha. 15g powder, medium fineness grinding (sugar size), v60 filter cup, 90 degrees water temperature, 30g water injection for the first time, steaming for 30 seconds, water injection to 105g water cut off, wait for the powder bed water to reach half, then water injection, slow and uniform water injection until 225g water, finally shake the filter cup to increase the extraction, the ratio of water to powder is 1:15, and the extraction time is 2:04.

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