Origin: Ethiopia
Region: Sidamo
Cooperative: Shoye Union
Varietal: Heirloom varietals
Processing Method: Dry process
Cupping Notes:
Melted milk chocolate body and caramel notes.
The Story:
“Shoye Union” is the specific cooperative mill where this coffee originates. A Union = a cooperative. FTO = Fair Trade and Organic certified. Most importantly under current Ethiopia laws, this means the lot can be exported with the name of the mill intact. Originally this is a Dry Process, DP special selection involves harvesting ripe cherry, promptly screen-drying on raised beds, and extra steps in sorting the coffee after it is hulled. This differs from other dry-process Ethiopia coffees, which are often assembled at the tail-ends of the crop, indiscriminately picked, and consolidated later (mixing good coffee with bad). The result is that this coffee has less distraction in terms of earthy, hidey or musty flavors, common in average dry processed Sidamo coffees.
