Introduction to World Coffee knowledge: details of the Red Cherry Project (OCR)

The Red Cherry Project (Operation Cherry Red), led by the Dutch trading company Trabocca BV and partly funded by the Dutch government, has been a small-scale farm quality improvement project since 2005. This project, which enhances coffee production and quality in remote areas of Ethiopia by providing producer expertise and related technology assistance, has been selected since 2005 for small coffee cooperatives at high elevations in Sidamo, Yegashev and Lim. Encourage and assist producers to improve the quality of coffee through testing (professional cup testers are also stationed in coffee producing areas) to ensure the quality of each batch by improving washing, semi-washing, solarization or other experimental treatments as far as they can. Before the harvest season, Trabocca invites selected smallholder organizations / producers to participate in the production of micro-batches of coffee (about 1500 to 3000 kg), carefully picking 100% ripe red coffee cherries by hand (hence the Red Cherry Project). Trabocca provides financial loan support, new hardware equipment and production processing knowledge and technology to assist farmers, promising to buy at a good price as long as the quality of the actual output meets the cup test standards in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia and Amsterdama Cup in the Netherlands. This year, the passing standard set by Trabocca is 88 points. The beans of the red cherry project are packed in plastic inner bags (GrainPro bags or vacuum box) immediately after the processing of the origin is completed, and then shipped to Djibouti for shipping. Strive for perfect quality through immediate monitoring, safe transportation and timely and appropriate handling.

Kaibedo is a small coffee cooperative in a small town in Dala, Sidamo Province. each small coffee farmer here has an average planting area of about 0.6 hectares and is composed of hundreds of coffee farmers. it is planted nearly 2000 meters above sea level, the climate varies greatly, and the soil is fertile, providing an excellent growing environment, and the raw bean itself exudes a strong aroma of raisins and fermented wine. The nearly yellowish-brown beans are actually small and slender, but the weight on the hands is very solid. After baking, we find that the bright berry aroma, or rich chocolate-like aftertaste, makes this bean have an eye-catching performance whether it is light baked or deep baked.

Flavor: berries, tropical fruits, fermented wine, jujube, tea, milk chocolate. Medium body, with a hint of spices and tea on the finish, is complex and long-lasting, tastes cleaner and more balanced after cooling.

English product name Ethiopia OCR Sidamo-3 Kebado

National Ethiopia

Production area Dara Zone, Sidamo

Producer Kaibeidou local small farmers' cooperative

Hierarchical Grade 3

Treatment of sun exposure

Varieties mixed with native species (Heirloom)

1800 to 2200 meters above sea level

The above information comes from the Taiwan coffee blog Organic Coffee blog.

From the shape of the bean, this bean is a typical Ethiopian, small grain, the size is not very uniform, the color is the characteristic of typical sun treatment, so it is specially compared with Harald.

The beans are similar in size and more fresh in color (indeed, Harald is 11 years old, Sidamo is that year). Look at the beans, Sidamo handles them more carefully, you can see them in the middle seam, and the defect rate is lower.

Source:

The blog of private coffee