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Sidamo candlelight grading system what is the Coffee Coffee the difference between Sidamo and Yega Xuefei

Published: 2026-04-04 Author: World Gafei

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Sidamo Candlestick, a coffee-producing area in southern Ethiopia, is located in the southernmost part of the Ethiopian plateau, bordering Kenya, at an altitude of 4600 Muth7200 feet (1400Muth2194 meters) above sea level.

If the bean body is huge but planted in low latitudes and below 700m, Kenya is a fragrant soft bean, but if it is planted in the subtropical zone and the height is 1000 meters in Shanghai, it is mostly quality hard beans, and Columbia and Kenya AA are graded by the size of beans, because the height is between 1200ml and 2000m, the temperature growth is slow, the proportion of beans is high, and the taste is good.

The size of beans is difficult to tell whether they are hard beans or soft beans, but altitude is a good basis for consumers. In Central and South America, except for Colombia and Brazil, they are all graded by altitude. SHB (Strictly Hard Bean) very hard beans.

Costa Rica SHB 1200 m ↑

Guatemala SHB 1350 m ↑

In addition to grading by bean size and altitude, some countries such as the Blue Mountains of Jamaica and Ethiopia use Grade1 to Grand5 to distinguish quality.

G1 is fine coffee.

G2 is washed beans.

G3--G5 is sun bean or commodity bean.

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