Geographical characteristics of Sidamo producing area in Ethiopia; description of coffee flavor in manor; introduction to planting environment

Ethiopian coffee beans

1. Only fully ripe dark red coffee cherries are picked at the time of picking. Before being exposed to sunlight, the beans are screened for defects at the processing plant to make the beans look more average in size and maturity.

2. Then, use a raised wooden frame or whole trellis for sunning, which will avoid the risk of the beans getting contaminated by the smell on the ground. During the exposure process, the beans should be carefully cared for so that the coffee beans can be evenly exposed to moisture; every three to five days, coffee workers will manually screen out the defective moldy beans. So by the time the sun is done and the beans come into the field without the skin and flesh, a piece of sunburned, bright red coffee cherry is already at a very blemish grade.

Roast: Medium

Origin: Southern Ethiopia Sidama production area

Blind test: Ethiopian coffee is mostly sun-baked, but that seems to have changed over the years, with the specialty coffee movement making people's mouths more picky.

The fragrance is obvious: according to Westerners, it is rose tea, but I think it is more like a lighter brown sugar ginger soup ~~ that kind of taste, as well as honey, orange tonality. Compared to other Sidamos, this one is obviously purer. In the sweet and sour flavor background, you can savor the taste of preserved fruit, flowers and chocolate. It's thin, but smooth. The final rhyme has milk, caramel and chocolate flavors, which are typical of Ethiopia. The taste level is very complex but very distinct. That's probably why it scored so high (and cost so much).

Ethiopia washed coffee yejia sherfi G1 G2

The highest grades of Yirgacheffe, Sidamo are Grade II and Grade III (G2, G3),

Most of the sun-processed coffee in eastern Ethiopia is grade 4 or grade 5 (G4, G5).

In many cases, fourth-grade coffee is labeled as five-grade in order to reduce taxes. The current classification is not uniform and somewhat chaotic, because there are also Grand G2 and Grand G2 processed by solarization, but Harar's highest grade is G4.