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Introduction to variety classification of Ethiopian coffee beans by description of taste and flavor

Published: 2025-08-21 Author: World Gafei
Last Updated: 2025/08/21, Ethiopian coffee classification Ethiopian beans are easy to recognize, mostly small and pointed long beans, known as longberry, and often mixed with small oval-shaped short beans, called shortberry, look uneven in size and appearance. The commercial bulk beans of Grade4 or Grade5 are mostly mixed with hundreds of different crystal seeds in different producing areas, so the bean phase

Classification of Ethiopian coffee

Ethiopian beans are easily recognizable. Most of the beans are small and pointed long beans, the so-called 'longberry', and often mixed with small oval-shaped short beans, the so-called' shortberry', looks uneven in size and uneven in appearance. The commercial bulk beans of Grade4 or Grade5 are mostly mixed with hundreds of different crystal seeds in different producing areas, so the phenomenon of uneven phase of beans is the most obvious, and it is not easy to bake evenly.

Even the official research unit of Ethiopia does not know how many Arabica subspecies there are in Ethiopia. The coffee cooperatives in this mountain are certainly different from those planted in another mountain, and even small farmers in the same region grow different varieties of coffee. It has been estimated that there are at least 2000 varieties of Ethiopian coffee and even more than 4500 kinds of coffee. Compared with the fat posture of Bourbon 'SL28', the main variety to the south of Kenya, or Tibica in Central and South America and Asia, Ethiopian beans look a little malnourished. However, the appearance of "beans" can not be seen. The citrus aroma of Ethiopian coffee is the highest in the world. Whether it is instant coffee or freshly ground coffee, you can smell the pungent aroma of orange or lemon during extraction.

Ethiopia is the birthplace of the famous Arabica coffee beans, and people have always maintained the tradition of harvesting wild coffee beans. The coffee garden with an elevation of more than 1500 meters has formed a unique coffee style after more than a thousand years of evolution and adaptation. Ethiopian coffee grown in the natural wild environment is called "wilderness coffee". It retains the most primitive and natural taste of coffee beans and has the most direct and full expression of the local environment.

It is worth mentioning that most of the coffee varieties in Central and South America are introduced, but Ethiopia is a rare native place, and there are countless native wild varieties that have not yet been discovered.

Ethiopia-Mocha (special flavor): for the origin of coffee, small particles, dry, turquoise, with a special aroma and sour taste. Ethiopia grades NO.1~NO.8 according to the blending rate of defective beans. Characteristics: fragrance-strong, sweet-medium, acid-medium, alcohol-strong, bitter-soft

Java coffee beans

Origin: Java, Indonesia

Coffee is grown in Arabica. After baking, the bitter taste is extremely strong and the aroma is very light, without sour taste. The bitterness and mellowness of Java coffee, coupled with the sweetness of chocolate syrup, make Java coffee more mellow and palatable and very popular with women!

Colombian coffee beans

Colombia-Columbia (highest quality): the second largest producer in the world. Coffee beans are light green, large granules, with heavy flavor, whether single drink or mixed are very suitable. Characteristics: incense-strong, sweet-medium, acid-medium, alcohol-strong, bitter-weak

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