Yelga Shefi Chelba Charoba G3 Sun-baked Yelga Shefi Flavor Features

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Ethiopia is the first country to discover coffee. It is still the most important producing country and the best in terms of coffee quality and output. Most coffee is traditional Arabica, with an annual output of about 350,000 tons and more than 70% exported to countries all over the world. About 15 million people in the country are engaged in coffee-related industries. More than 90% of farms or cooperatives belong to small-area cultivation. After 2008, Ethiopia's crops including wheat, corn, sesame and coffee were fully introduced into the ECX trading system.(Ethiopian Commodity Exchange) to replace the existing auction and export methods, the practice is coffee farmers or cooperatives, coffee sent to ECX centralized warehouse, the same grade, the same area of beans will be mixed together and then directly auctioned, you do not know which farmers or which cooperatives produced, this practice actually has no effect on yield and quality, It is easier to distinguish the quality of coffee by price [one penny is worth the goods]. What is affected is that intermediate traders cannot freely track and obtain satisfactory profits [low price and high quality], which makes consumers more clear and transparent, because they will be taxed heavily if they do not go through the ECX trading system. Nowadays, more than 90% of them pass through this trading system, but ECX trading system is not a good thing for buyers who like fine coffee. For this reason, Ethiopia has launched DST (Direct Specialty Trade) system since 2010. DST system is an Ethiopian auction held irregularly. Only fine coffee specialty coffee with SCAA cup test standard of more than 80 points can be traded with foreign green bean merchants under the name of their own farm or cooperative.

In Ethiopia, sun-dried beans are distinguished by adding 3 and 4 after the name (3 is better). After harvesting, coffee cherries are immediately dried in the sun-drying field with their peel and pulp until the coffee is dried to 16% moisture. Then they are dried in a dryer to reach the same moisture content. Then they are wrapped in parchment or sheepskin and repeatedly rubbed until the surface mucosa is removed. Polishing and drying is the processing process of sun-dried beans.

The Yelga Sherphine Chelba Charoba Cooperative is a group of 500 small farmers. The average farmer owns 2- 5 hectares of land, surrounded by mountains winding around the Chelba River, where sun-dried beans are the raw product of the end of the season, usually taking 10- 15 days to dry, when the style of coffee beans determines the most important part of God, good weather farmers laugh bad weather farmers worry about this is always the case.

Property Characteristics: Farms

Farmer: Various small producers

Region: Gedeo

Grade: Red Cherry Plan G3

Country: Ethiopia

Altitude: 1,800--2,000 m

Farm Size: 600--800 households Population

Coffee Characteristics: Coffee characteristics

Variety: Heirloom Local traditional wild varieties

Processing System: Unwashed Sun-dried Beans

Appearance: 16-18 Screen (16--18 mesh)

Top Jury Descriptions Comments: Cinnamon 60 seconds after explosion

aroma/flavor: green tea, narcissus lily, fermented bouquet, strawberry, rose perfume, stevia, honey, brown sugar,

Acid: strawberry acid, raspberry, oxalic acid, plum, jujube fruit acid, dark plum

fermented wine aroma very good, taste balanced, aftertaste tea flavor heavy, lychee brown sugar sweet

Overall style attributes: fermented wine aroma, tea feeling heavy, fruit sweet