2019 Ugo Begne Forest; Feku Jabril - Ethiopia

Origin

• 🇪🇹 Ethiopia· Yirgacheffe

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Please note that weekly orders are roasted onRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. Tuesday and shipped on Wednesday. This is an exquisite representation of forest-cultivated coffee from the Ugo Begne forest in Uraga, Guji. It is a complex cup, layered with ripe peach, singing acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it., and jasmine-like florals. Country: Ethiopia Region: Uraga, Guji VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: Ethiopian LandraceHeirloom (Ethiopia)A catch-all label for Ethiopia's thousands of indigenous, largely uncatalogued coffee varieties — used when a lot's exact genetics are unknown. Altitude: 2,130-2,160 masl Harvest: January 2019 Processing: Harvested at peak ripeness. Depulped. Wet fermented for 12 hours. Dried on raised beds for 8-10 days. ABOUT FEKU JEBRIL This coffee comes to us under the careful eye of the Yabitu Koba manager Feku Jebril, and is grown at some of the highest coffee producing altitudes in the world. Coffees from this region of Uraga are relatively new and have only really existed in their own right for around ten years. Before that they were trucked across the border, blended, and sold as Yirgacheffe. Luckily for us, these unique coffees are now being processed and sold separately, and are some of our favorite flavor profiles from Ethiopia. ABOUT ETHIOPIAN LANDRACE Ethiopia is widely acknowledged as where coffee originated, and its production continues to represent about 10% of the country’s gross domestic product. DNA testing has confirmed over 60 distinct varieties growing in Ethiopia, making it home to the most coffee biodiversity of any region in the world. Given the tradition of coffee production in Ethiopia and the political interworkings of the Ethiopian coffee trade, it is virtually impossible to get single variety coffee lots from Ethiopia. This is changing, albeit very slowly. Most Ethiopian coffees are blends of the many Ethiopian varieties, and referred to simply as 'Ethiopian Landrace'. Contains 250g of delicious coffee.