Introduction to the characteristics and flavor of Yega Chefe Coffee

Most of the refining methods of Yirgacheffe are water washing (washed), which is fermented and shelled in the washing tank for about 72 hours and dried directly outside the plant. After the raw beans are manually selected and qualified by the Ethiopian Coffee Cocoa Management Agency, they are traded and exported through competitive bidding. Its annual output is about 225000 bags (each bag of 60kg). In the past, it was mainly sold to Northern Europe (mainly Germany) and Japan, and recently it has gradually attracted the attention of North America.

Yega Snow Coffee producing area Sidamo Gedeo District, Sidamo Province

Today, Ethiopia is an important coffee producer, with about 12 million people engaged in coffee production and a major exporter of Arabica coffee beans in Africa. The high-quality coffee here is of excellent quality and is worth looking for. A variety of coffee cultivation methods can be found in Ethiopia: everything from wild coffee forests and semi-developed land to traditionally operated plots to modern plantations. About 50% of the coffee is grown more than 1500 meters above sea level.

One of the rarest Ethiopian coffee beans on the market is Yirgachaffe, which is exported to Japan and Europe but is rarely seen in the United States. This is because Dallmeyer, the German coffee roaster owned by Nestle, has established close ties with the growers of Yega Snow Coffee, thus obtaining the largest single supply of the coffee beans.

The main producing areas of Ethiopian coffee are Harald (Harar) in the east, Djimmah (southwest) and Sidamo (south). The unique fragrance of Yirgacheffe comes from Yirga, a small town in the northwest of Sidamo province. Yirgacheffe has always been famous in the eyes of coffee connoisseurs all over the world. the rare washed high-quality Arabica coffee is suitable for all degrees of baking, showing a fresh and bright aroma of flowers and fruits, beautiful and complete bean shape, which is incomparable to the general mocha. It has unique fruit aromas of citrus and lemon, with aromas of jasmine, sour taste similar to wine, clean and unmixed taste, just like freshly boiled citrus fruit tea with a long finish. Full of floral and citrus aromas, with mild acidity after moderate roasting and rich aromas after deep roasting, the rich and uniform taste is the most attractive feature of Ethiopian Yega snow caffeine. It is known as the best coffee bean in Ethiopia and is the representative of fine coffee in East Africa. Yirgacheffe is undoubtedly the most unique coffee in the world today.