Description of Coffee Flavor in Gujisha Qiso area of Ethiopia introduction to the treatment method of manor production area

Description of Coffee Flavor in Gujisha Qiso area of Ethiopia introduction to the treatment method of manor production area

[country]: Ethiopia

[producing area]: Shaqisuo producing area in Guji region

[altitude]: 1800-2000

[treatment]: elevated bed solarization

[variety]: local native species Heirloom

[producer]: local small farmers

[flavor]: lemon, mango, blueberry, wine aroma

Shakisso is located in the southern part of Guji and Oromia, adjacent to Sidama and Gedeo. There are many pits in this area, which were used to mine gold in the early days, so there are many potholes in this coffee growing area. This makes people dangerous when walking between coffee growing areas. Shakiso is a unique producing area of Guji / Cedamory, even in Cedamori, which is a remote area away from most coffee producing areas, and another famous local product is gold. Miners, land, race and other factors also caused unrest in the region in 2006. As a result, the biggest problem facing the region now is that ─ needs manpower to maintain the growing area and harvest coffee. Local small farmers began to grow organic coffee in 2001 and work closely with medium-sized coffee producers because they know how to grow forest coffee in the highlands.

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

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 pleasant blueberry-like fermented fruit and red wine-like texture.