Girma Edema - Ethiopia
CUP SCORE 90
Blueberry / Lemon peel / Floral / Clove
suggested for espresso and filter
Technical detail
Girma Edema Ethiopia
Producer Country
Oromia (Guji) 2020 masl
Region Elevation
Natural Heirlooms
Pulping process Cultivar
January 15 July 15
Picked in Landed in
2600 kg GrainPro bag
Lot size Arrived in
Self-made
Rubens Gardelli drum roaster
Roast profile by Roasted on
THE STORY BEHIND
The Guji region of Sidamo, along the Mora Mora River in southern Ethiopia, produces “forest coffee”, or coffee trees that grow wild. The region also has numerous small coffee farms that pool their coffee in a co-op for milling and export. Guji coffee is heirloom. What that means to us is that it is not a modern cultivar, but a traditional coffee that is unchanged from the very earliest coffees grown in this area. That alone would make us pretty excited about trying it. But there's more…
With wet processing, the coffee cherry is soaked in a vat of water to loosen the sticky fruit that surrounds the seed. It tends to roast more evenly and be brighter, crisper and a bit smoother in the cup than a dry processed coffee. With dry processing, the entire coffee cherry is allowed to sun-dry on raised tables. It is raked every two hours to continually stir it up, preventing mold and insuring a more even drying. The dried up fruit is then mechanically removed from the seed. This is risky business for the mill. Mess it up and you get a moldy, harsh, medicine tasting coffee. Do it right, though, and you are rewarded with a twisty, complex, heady, intense coffee.
Guji abounds with floral, spice, lemony and blueberry upfront.
please note
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Cut-off time is
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