The Clean Flavor of Coffee from Godeo, the Outstanding Coffee in the Southern Yegashafi region of Ethiopia

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Ethiopia has the most diverse coffee ecosystem in the world (forest coffee, semi-forest coffee, pastoral coffee and plantation coffee), which enables the preservation of its rich Arabica genes, coupled with multiple treatments of sun, water and semi-washing, showing a complex and varied flavor. It can be said that most of the "taste spectrum" of coffee producing areas around the world can be drunk here, reflecting Ethiopia's inclusive "king flavor". In addition, Ethiopia is the cradle of Arabica coffee beans, and growing, stir-frying and brewing coffee are unique local cultural heritage.

In the southern part of the Yegashafi region of Ethiopia, local growers have been producing high-quality Arabica coffee in the traditional way. After washing or sun fermentation, these coffees show extremely strong aroma and complexity, especially citrus and floral flavors, among which the Godeo region is one of the best. Gedeo is an area within the state of SNNPR (an acronym for the southern people's area). In fact, in the past, coffee from Gedeo was marked and sold as Yirgacheffe.

With an annual rainfall of 1200 mm to 1599 mm and an elevation of about 1700-2200 meters, Godio is jointly produced by about 25000 small coffee farmers. In addition to selected high-quality batches, they are also mixed and treated in a washing plant. At the end of 2016, inter-tribal conflicts led to massive property losses in the region, fires and riots damaged many coffee production facilities and factories, while rare frosts destroyed thousands of hectares of coffee trees. But despite all these tribulations, the people of Godeo are still energetic, hopeful and moving forward to produce better coffee.

In the local language, Botabaa means garden, while the Ethiopian plateau is the birthplace of the Nile, so the bean has a good name for the Nile garden. The local traditional washing method not only retains the natural aroma and producing area characteristics of coffee to the greatest extent, but also really gives a bean garden-like flavor, such as lavender, sweet oregano and other vanilla.

Citrus and apricot-like juices also give pleasant enjoyment to the taste buds from beginning to end; at the same time, the exquisite greenhouse sun method is used in the drying process, which invests in high-intensity human labor, which isolates the contact between coffee and the ground. prevent the smell of soil in the process of sun drying, creating an unusually clean fruit flavor.