Introduction of Coffee Flavor description and Grinding scale varieties in Shaqiso producing area of Ethiopia

Introduction of Coffee Flavor description and Grinding scale varieties in Shaqiso producing area of Ethiopia

"Ethiopian Sidamo" is a type of single origin and grows in Arabica coffee in Ethiopia's Sidamo province. Like coffee in most African countries, Ethiopian Sidamo is characterized by small gray beans, but characterized by its rich, spicy, wine or chocolate-like taste and floral aroma. The most distinctive flavors found in all Sidamo coffee are lemon and citrus with bright and crisp acidity. Sidamo Coffee includes Yirgachefe Yega Snow Coffee and guji Coffee, both of which are of high quality.

Water-washed coffee flavor is not easy to have wild flavor, with pure, refreshing characteristics, suitable for City to Full City baking degree; some essential excellent Ethiopian water-washed coffee beans, sometimes can be detected obvious rising lemon, citrus essential oil, jasmine, honey and so on, the sour taste is obvious, mellow and thin. All kinds of mocha beans treated in the sun have wild flavor in the basic flavor, but the degree is more or less different, so it is more suitable for the baking degree from Full City to Vienna. The essence of the excellent sun, mocha beans, its tail will have a clear Hey chocolate flavor, some have a delightful blueberry-like fermented fruit and red wine texture

Washed coffee accounts for 35% of exports. Good quality washed coffee is processed with freshly picked fully ripe fruit, picked carefully and closely monitored by professionals. The picked clean coffee beans are pulped on the day of picking, then fermented, washed, dried and peeled. The humidity of processed coffee beans is kept at about 12%.

Sun-cured coffee accounts for 65% of exports. Mainly picked by families, red coffee beans are placed on cement floors or on high tables to dry to about 11.5% humidity, then peeled and cleaned.

Grading and quality control system of coffee

In Ethiopia, the grading and quality control system of coffee is divided into three levels: producer, regional and national. All coffee is inspected by local inspection agencies before leaving the country of origin, and then re-tested at the coffee inspection and grading centers in Addis and Diredawa to determine its quality grade. Coffee is graded before auction and sale and is important for all groups involved in production, acquisition, export and consumption. Before export, coffee must also be sent to a national quality control agency for inspection to confirm that the origin and color meet the export standards to ensure the reputation of Ethiopian coffee.