Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 1 Natural Worka Chelbesa – 28025 – GrainPro Bags – SPOT RCWHSE

Position Spot

Bags 16

Warehouses Oakland

Flavor Profile Candied orange, strawberry, maple, jammy, clean

About this coffee

Grower

Smallholder farmers organized around the Chelbesa coffee mill

Altitude

1900 – 2200 masl

Variety

Indigenous landraces and local heirloom cultivars

Soil

Vertisol

Region

Gedeo Zone, Ethiopia

Process

Full natural and dried on raised beds

Harvest

October – December

Certification

Conventional

Coffee Background

This coffee is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Chelbesa coffee mill located in the Gedeo Zone. The Gedeo Zone is named after the Gedeo people who are indigenous to this area. Small coffee farmers deliver ripe cherries to the Chelbesa mill where the cherries are carefully selected and immediately placed on raised beds carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for an optimal drying process. Cherries are also turned regularly on the beds to prevent damage during the drying process.  The cherries are stored in a local warehouse after the moisture is reduced to between 11.5 and 12 percent, and then transported to Addis Ababa where the coffee is milled and exported.