A brief introduction to the History and Culture of the Origin and Development of the Fine Coffee beans full of softness

Country: Ethiopia

Grade: G1

Production area: Guido Gedeo

Altitude: 1900-2100 m

Treatment: insolation

Variety: native species Heirloom

Producer: Adado Cooperative

Flavor: blueberry, honey, purple fruit, citrus notes

Adado (Adoto) is an amazing trace producing area of Yega Xuefei. When you open the bag, the air is filled with a lot of blueberry and vanilla aroma, after baking and grinding release, the aroma will explode again, this is a veritable blueberry bomb. The first rich blueberry flavor is accompanied by a hint of well-balanced acidity, a typical sunny coffee. The cup is sweet, full of soft and delicate scent of flowers. Quite simply, this is an exciting cup of coffee with rich fruity aromas, thick bady, sweet and delicate floral flavor.

Adado Cooperative Coffee comes from the Guido producing area (GedeoZone) on the southeastern plateau of Ethiopia, with the capital AddisAbaba in the north. The Gedeo (often referred to as the Darasa) are classified as a culturally and linguistically unique ethnic group. It is bordered by Sidama to the east, Alaba to the north and Burji,Guji to the west. All the ethnic groups here belong to the Kucht language family of East Africa (Cushitic). Since ancient times, the cliffs in the upper reaches of the great rift graben in the north of Sidamo have been the main active area. To date, Gedeo is still one of the most densely populated areas in Ethiopia.

In December 1994, the Constitution of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was formulated. According to the Constitution, Ethiopia will implement a federal system and a parliamentary cabinet system after the general election for a term of five years. After the national election in May 1995, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia was established on August 22, and Meles became prime minister in her capacity as chairman of the majority party of the people's House of Representatives. On May 14, 2000, Ethiopia held a national election, and EGF defeated other opposition parties by an absolute majority to stay in power. In October, the new federal parliament and government were established, and the speakers of both houses and Prime Minister Meles were re-elected, and the original cabinet also remained in office with the approval of the parliament. In October 2001, May readjusted government institutions and reshuffled the cabinet, adding the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture and the Ministry of Taxation, and set up a new cabinet composed of 18 ministers in Ethiopia, mainly the mountain plateau, the main part of the Ethiopian plateau, the central and western part of the plateau, accounting for 2x3 of the whole territory, the East African Rift Valley runs through the whole territory, with an average elevation of nearly 3000 meters, known as the "roof of Africa". The terrain around the plateau is gradually declining. The Darol depression in the north fell to 113 meters below sea level, the lowest point in the country. The coast of the Red Sea is a narrow banded plain. Deserts and semi-deserts in the north, south and north-east account for about 25% of the country's area. Dashan Peak in the Ximen Mountains is 4623 meters above sea level. It is the highest peak in Ethiopia. Ethiopia is rectangular, with a ratio of length to width of 3:2. From top to bottom, it is composed of green, yellow and red parallel equal horizontal rectangles, with the national emblem in the middle of the flag. Since the end of the 19th century, Ethiopia began to use the green, yellow and red cross-striped national flag. In modern history, Ethiopia is the first African country to join the forest of free nations. [8]

In the fifties and sixties of this century, many African countries became independent one after another and adopted green, yellow and red as the colors of the national flag, so they were called "pan-African colors". Ethiopia is one of the ancient countries in Africa, with a long history of more than 3000 years, giving green, yellow and red colors deeper roots in this land. Historically, they are closely related to the liturgy of the Coptic church, and are worshipped as the symbol of the trinity of the Father, the son and the Holy Spirit, reflecting the three virtues of loyalty, hope and kindness advocated by human freedom. These three colors also represent three regions of Ethiopia: Tikleh (red), Amhara (yellow) and Theo (green).

Although the Ethiopian Yirgacheffe coffee is petite, it is gentle and delicate and sweet. As the hometown of coffee, thousands of years of planting history and processing tradition in Ethiopia have created high-quality washed Arabica beans. Light baking has unique sweet aromas of lemon, flowers and honey, soft acidity and citrus flavors, fresh and bright on the palate. No milk or sugar, let the rich texture and unique soft flower scent brush your taste buds, leaving an endless aftertaste.

Yega Xuefei is a small town, 700-21000 meters above sea level, synonymous with Ethiopian boutique coffee. It has been a wetland since ancient times. The ancient saying "Yirga" means "settle down" and "Cheffe" means "wetland". The mode of production and flavor of coffee here is so outstanding that Ethiopian coffee farmers compete to be proud of the flavor of their coffee, making it the most famous coffee producing area in Africa.

At first, Yejassefi's coffee trees were planted by European monks, and later by farmers or cooperatives. Yega Xuefei is actually constructed by the surrounding coffee communities or cooperatives, including: Hafusha, Hama, Biloya.

These mountain villages are foggy, like spring all year round, with a gentle breeze in summer, cool but not hot, rain but not damp, and no cold damage in winter, giving birth to a unique regional flavor of citrus and flowers. Coffee trees are mostly planted in farmers' own backyards or mixed with other crops in their fields when talking about Ethiopia. Let's talk about the origin of coffee first. In about the sixth century, when an Arab shepherd, Kardai, was herding sheep to the Ethiopian prairie one day, he felt very excited and excited to see each goat. He felt very strange. After careful observation, he found it very strange. These sheep are excited only after eating some kind of red fruit. Cardai tasted some of them curiously and found them very sweet and delicious, and he felt very refreshed after eating them. From then on, he often drove the sheep to eat this delicious fruit. Later, a Muslim passed by and took some of this incredible red fruit home and distributed it to other parishioners, so its magical effect spread.

With fresh coffee beans. When buying, pay attention to whether the color of the beans and the size of the particles are the same. Good coffee beans are shiny and have a strong aroma without being mixed with peculiar smell. No matter what kind of coffee beans, freshness is an important factor affecting the quality. When shopping, grab one or two coffee beans in your mouth and chew them with a crisp sound (indicating that the coffee is not damp) and the fragrance of the teeth and cheeks is the top grade, but it is best to squeeze it with your hands to feel whether it is solid, rather than buying crispy coffee. If the coffee bean has lost its fragrance or smells stale, it means that the coffee bean is no longer fresh and is not suitable for purchase.

Freshly fried coffee beans are not suitable for immediate consumption and should be stored for a week to completely release the gas from the beans.

Generally speaking, the best drinking period for coffee is a week after stir-frying, when the coffee beans are the freshest and the Aroma taste is the best.

In addition, the purity of coffee beans is also another consideration. The expert candidate for coffee is not necessarily to look at the size of the particles, but to grab a handful of individual coffee beans (RegionalCoffee), about dozens of portions, to see whether the color of each single bean is the same, and whether the particles are similar in size and shape, so as to avoid buying shoddy products disguised as mixed beans. But if it is a synthetic bean (BlendedCoffee), it is a normal phenomenon that the size and color are different. In addition, heavy heat and medium-deep roasting will cause coffee beans to produce oil, but if the lightly roasted beans produce oil, they have gone bad, not only reducing aroma, but also astringent and sour taste. In short, when buying coffee, we should pay attention to its freshness, aroma and whether it is stale or not, and the ideal purchase quantity is to be able to drink it in half a month. The two coffee bean production methods should first remove the skin, pulp, racing peel and silver skin after harvesting the fruit and before shipping it on the market. There are two kinds of methods: drying (also known as natural or non-washing) and washing.