ETHIOPIA | Asefa Beraso | Heirloom | Natural

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
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Tasting NotesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee.: Hawaiian punch, tropical fruit, & mango Region: Yirgacheffe Varietal: HeirloomHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. Process: NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. Recipes: Espresso: 1:2.5 | Filter: 1:17 About: This coffee comes from Asefa Beraso Shato, a smallholderSmallholderA farmer growing coffee on a small family plot — often under two hectares. Most of the world's coffee is grown this way, typically pooled at cooperatives or washing stations. producer farming in the town of Konga, in the heart of Yirgacheffe. Bordered by Uganda to the west, Kenya to the south, and the Oromia region to the east, the Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) has fertile, redbrown soils, and coffee production remains the primary agricultural industry of the SNNPR, and producers in the area generally work on small farms. This coffee was processed naturally, letting the coffee cherry slowly dry around the seed, which focuses the big fruit flavors. Roasting days: Proud Mary roast Monday-Friday during normal business hours. To ensure freshness of coffee, best to order early in the week as postal services and couriers do not operate on weekends. Orders: placed by 8.30am PST will be roasted and dispatched the same day. If you are ordering on a Friday, and order after 8.30am then your coffee will be roasted the following business day - Monday.