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Ethiopia Buku Abel

Ethiopia Buku Abel

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This coffee surprises with a refreshingly clean taste and very present notes of berries, citrus and stone fruit, despite being an Ethiopian Natural, which often have more tropical and fermented notes. Besides the berry notes, the cleanliness and brightness of the coffee as well as its sweetness are what made us fall in love with it.

The hand-picked cherries are sorted to remove overripe and unripe ones. The coffee is then dried on raised beds for 7-10 days and turned frequently to assure an even and consistent drying process. During the hot hours at midday and the cold hours at night, the coffee is covered for protection. When dried sufficiently, it is being sorted again, milled and bagged for export.

Process: Natural
Varieties/Cultivars: Heirloom, 74158
Altitude: 2000-2350 masl, 6.0°N
Cup Profile: Peach, Raspberry, Mandarin Orange

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We paid an FOB price of $4.0/lb for this coffee, which is 200% of the Fairtrade minimum price.
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Buku Abel

Farm: Buku Abel
Producer: Esayas Beriso & Meskerem Tomas
Purchasing relationship: 1 years
Region: Buku, Hambela Wamena, West Guji Zone, Oromia
Altitude: 2000-2350 masl, 6.0°N

Buku is one of the highest elevated coffee growing areas in Ethiopia with a peak altitude of 2‘350 masl, where this coffee is grown and prepared.

When Esayas Beriso was still working a government office job, he and his brothers started a business by collecting coffee cherries from smallholder farmers in the region to transport and sell them to local wet mills. He began to plant and cultivate some coffee trees on the side around this time. Along with his wife Meskerem Tomas, who manages the harvest at the farm, he became a full-time coffee producer in 2009, and left his job. Today, their farm is around 31 hectares in size and besides the coffee they grow themselves, they also work with green coffee they buy from smallholder farmers in the surrounding area.

To process their washed coffees, they use a wet mill of SNAP Coffee, who they work with to export their coffee. In the future, they would like to build their own wet mill at some point in the future. Their naturals, however, are processed on their own farm already.

Snap Specialty Coffee

SNAP Specialty Coffee is a coffee exporter with a tech background established by Negusse Debela in 2008. The company runs coffee washing and processing stations and exports specialty coffee beans to customers worldwide. Entrepreneur Negusse invested in washing stations and a dry mill because he believed that 'if you build it, they will come'. With a team of passionate coffee professionals, they are now an important player in the Ethiopian specialty coffee market.

The company puts an emphasis on consistent processing, transferring know-how to the farmers, conducting trainings in processing and cleaning methods, and protecting the environment through waste recycling systems. Their young and motivated team has a great understanding of quality in specialty coffee and of what is important to achieve and maintain it.

Brew Recommendation

Origami Dripper S, Origami 2 Cup paper filter
15g coffee, 250g water, 93°c
medium-coarse filter grind size
brew with 5 pours
total contact time 2:45-3:00