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Ethiopia Nano Challa

Ethiopia Nano Challa

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The coffee we ship is usually roasted within the last two weeks.

This coffee offers a wonderfully balanced cup with a juicy acidity, notes of various citrus fruit – especially bergamot, stone fruit and even some tropical fruit. The profile is rounded off by a beautiful floral fragrance.

The ripe coffee cherries are picked from the trees, collected and sorted to remove unripe cherries or defects. Next, the pulp is removed mechanically and the beans are put into tanks for the next 40-50 hours for a wet fermentation. Once the fermentation is done, they wash the beans again and remove the ones floating on top. Drying is first done on raised beds in the shade for 24 hours, before it is completed in the sun during 7-10 days, all the while further sorting is taking place.

Process: Washed
Varieties/Cultivars: Heirloom
Altitude: 1980-2100 masl, 8.3°N
Cup Profile: Bergamot, Apricot, Mango

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We paid an FOB price of $3.98/lb for this coffee, which is 199% of the Fairtrade minimum price.
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Nano Challa Cooperative

Producer: Nano Challa Cooperative
Purchasing relationship: 3 years
Region: Genji Challa, Gera, Jimma
Altitude: 1980-2100 masl, 8.3°N

Nano Challa is a well-known name in the world of specialty coffee and stands for fruity, floral and tea-like washed Ethiopian coffees with a lot of clarity. This hasn't always been the case. The Nano Challa Cooperative was founded in 2004 in order to produce specialty coffee in a region not previously linked with high-quality coffee. Nowadays, over 600 producers are part of the cooperative, which is part of the Kata Muduga Union.

As is very typical in Ethiopia, various indigenous heirloom varieties are grown on the fields in this mountainous scenery. The coffee is grown at high altitude in the Jimma zone, named after the former kingdom with the same name, and is part of the Oromia region.

Ethiopia

One of the most famous countries that grow coffee – if not the most famous one, Ethiopia is known as the origin of coffee. It is Africa's second most populous country and one of the biggest economies of East Africa. It has a rich and long history of coffee tradition, both in regards to production as well as consumption.

Ethiopian coffees have a special place in many specialty coffee enthusiast's heart. Though many coffee drinkers may have a specific coffee or region in mind when they think of Ethiopia, the country offers a wide range of different flavor profiles.

It is common for Ethiopian coffee producers to only tend to a very small amount of coffee plants. These smallholder farmers do not usually process their coffee themselves. Instead, the harvested cherries are brought and sold to a processing facility, such as a washing station. These are often run by the companies who export the coffee. However, in recent years it has become a little bit more common to find single-farm coffees from Ethiopia, too, such as our Buku Abel. As is common in many other growing countries, these coffees come from a single farm, which carries out the processing on site.

As Ethiopia is a land-locked country, the most common trade route of Ethiopian coffees is through the port of Djibouti.