- Notes
- Orange, Macadamia & Pear
- Roast
- Light Espresso
- Process
- Washed
- Origin
- Colombia & Ethiopia
This two part blend works out to be a lovely balanced coffee as both the Ethiopia and Colombia coffees meld together in sweetness. With a base flavour of macadamia and raw sugar sweetness coming from the Colombian, the Sidama compliments this with fruitiness and acidity punching through as orange and pear as you continue to drink, with a finish of lime and berries which lingers on the pallet leaving you salivating.
Farmer Cooperatives
- ASOPROCAFEES
- HOMACHO WAENO
Process
Processing green coffee beans requires fermentation to produce desirable flavours and allow it to be stored without spoiling. There are two main ways to ferment coffee, either with water which we called washed (or wet) processing or without water called natural (dry) processing. Once ripe cherries are picked, pulping them in a wet mill removes the skin, and fermentation processes the remaining mucilage on the bean.
Washed
Traditionally, washed coffee is picked and within 8 hours the cherries are floated in water (and unwanted components are scooped from the top), and then pulped. Then the beans will be washed in water for around 12 - 36 hours and dried in the sun on patios for around a week.
Natural
Natural processing involves none of these steps, traditionally the full cherry is dried in the sun for around a week, then the dried skin is removed.
ASOPROCAFEES Cooperative
- Colombia, Central America
Colombia Tolima is sourced from family-owned farms organised around Asociación de Productores de Café Especial La Orquídea (ASOPROCAFEES). ASOPROCAFEES is a producer association with 59 members who live in the community of La Orquídea within the municipality of Planadas in the department of Tolima, Colombia.
ASOPROCAFEES was founded in 2014 and started to export in 2015. ASOPROCAFEES assists its members to improve coffee quality using sustainable agricultural practices and obtains better prices for specialty coffee, which enables members to reinvest in their farms and provide for their families.
HOMACHO WAENO Cooperative
- Ethiopia, Africa
Ethiopia Sidama is sourced from family owned farms organised around the Homacho Waeno Cooperative located in the district of Aleta Wondo within the Sidama Zone, Ethiopia. The Homacho Waeno Cooperative was founded in 1969 and currently has more than 3,900 members.
Homacho Waeno joined the Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (SCFCU), an umbrella organisation established in 2001 to support a sustainable coffee supply from cooperatives in the Sidama region. SCFCU supports forty-six cooperatives with more than 80,000 farmer-members.