PROUD MARY SPECIALTY INSTANT COFFEE | WILD | DERI KIDAME

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Yirgacheffe

Tasting notes

Character

• Sweet
  25
• Funky
  20

Proud Mary Instant Coffee. There's instant coffee and then there's what's in this box - outstanding, 'what the?!...this is instant?' instant. Our version is where high-quality, thoughtfully sourced single-originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. coffee you've come to expect from Proud Mary and life's on-the-fly coffee moments intersect. In The Box 5 single servings of Deri Kidame Ethiopia. This lot is compiled of coffees from over 350 producers, who all delivered their coffee to the Deri Kidame Washing StationWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee. in Wamena . Kenzu Ahmed , the station manager , runs a quality focused operation. Having worked at Deri Kidame for over three years, Kenzu has established relationships with the local producers, and sources the best cherries from the best farmers. Hambela Guji , when compared to neighboring regions such as Yirgacheffe , is relatively new to coffee production. A mixture of fertile, previously unfarmed land, and high altitude, makes it the perfect place for growing high quality coffee. This coffee was processed as a traditional 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. and dried on raised beds. It is sweet and syrupy, with notes of red fruit and chocolate.