Introduction of Coffee planting and Primary processing Ethiopian ritual species taste characteristics Variety Grinding scale

Introduction of Coffee planting and Primary processing Ethiopian ritual species taste characteristics Variety Grinding scale

ET has long been one of the top ten coffee producing areas in the world, and is the vanguard of African producing areas.

ET has a federal department, the coffee and tea Authority, that specializes in coffee and tea-related matters, such as setting purchase prices for washing plants.

ET produces a lot of coffee, but unlike other producing countries, the domestic consumption of coffee in ET is also very large, which is very different from many coffee farmers who do not drink coffee only for the economic producing countries. Half of the output of ET contributes to its own citizens. Of course, like other producing countries that rely on coffee to earn foreign exchange, although their citizens are keen on coffee, the best grades are naturally sent to consumer countries that can pay a high price.

There is nothing unique about the flow of ET coffee exports, with half going to the European Union, then the United States, then Japan in Asia, and so on.

Coffee plays an important role in the ET economy and is an important part of GDP. Once half of the foreign exchange came from coffee, and the income brought by coffee accounted for 10% of the government revenue.

Although ET is an established supplier of coffee and has the longest history of coffee, the cultivation of ET coffee is also the most historically handed down. So far, many picking and processing are done entirely by hand. However, this does not mean that coffee farmers lack new knowledge. On the contrary, they are the professional who know best how to get high-quality coffee.

There are numerous ET coffee farms, and there are many small coffee farms. The most well-known producing areas are harar,sidamo (yirgacheffe) and ghimbi.

Although there are not many organically certified coffees in ET, most of them are actually organic products. Yes, coffee in most producing areas is grown in shade, not to mention that many of them are grown in high mountains and sheltered by ancient rainforests, there is no tradition of using chemicals, and chemicals are only used cautiously in some large state-owned farms.

The traditional method of treatment is solarization. In 1972, the first water washing processing plants were built in the Yirgacheffe production area. Decades ago, most coffee is now wet-processed in the western and southern regions.

In general, wet-processed coffee is thought to be more pure, softer, rounded and better acidity. Dry processing is slightly better in terms of mellowness and richness.

Yirgacheffe is the best wet-processed ET coffee. Although ET coffee, like many African coffee, is famous for its fruit style and red wine flavor, Yirgacheffe's unparalleled high-quality flavor still makes it an insurmountable classic in the boutique coffee world. Dry-processed coffee is often considered to be slightly inferior in flavor, but this conventional wisdom is declared invalid when it comes to dry Harar. Dry Harar, with its wild and mellow performance, has become another peak of ET coffee that can compete with Yirga in the world of boutique coffee.

When it comes to coffee processing, in the tradition of ET, it still follows the ancient method of drying. A coffee senior once mentioned his experience in ET. Even if it is a wild coffee tree, in the harvest season, some people will carefully pick the coffee fruit for follow-up treatment. The elder wrote that when driving on a sparsely populated road, he found coffee fruit drying on the road and was carefully circled. Imagine that scene, is it very kind, only if you really regard coffee as a part of daily life will there be such a practice at home.

Of course, most of the coffee dried directly on the road will not appear in the export ranks, because the treatment is too crude and is mainly used for local consumption or supply to the local market. As for the coffee fruits in the export ranks, they are now carefully handled on high beds off the ground.