Ethiopia Organic Guji Sidamo SWP Decaf

Ethiopia Organic Guji Sidamo SWP Decaf

Farm Description

This originated with a really balanced, sweet, wet-processed lot of coffee from the Moredocofe farm in the Guji region. We cupped the green coffee and thought it was really nice, and knew it would be a very flavorful decaf. And the results turned out to be great.

This coffee is part of our Farm Gate pricing program.

Cupping Notes

The dry fragrance has floral hints, nutty roast tone, and is quite sweet. The wet aroma from the light roast is very sweet, dripping in honey, with a touch of citrus. Darker roasts have a deep caramel sweet scent. The cup has a rounded sweet tone ...again with the honey descriptor. The light roast has a graham cracker note, lemon cookie brightness, and a touch of jasmine. I am really impressed with the body here. It seems to have even more body than the green sample before we sent it to Swiss Water ... is that possible? The finish is mild and cleanly disappearing on the palate. It has really charming character of a clean, wet-process Ethiopia coffee, exactly like it should. I cupped it on a table of non-decaf, wet-process Ethiopia Sidamos and Yirga Cheffe coffees and it held its own, mark for mark, against the rest (and surpassed a few samples as well!) I think it is at its zenith in terms of brightness, sweetness, and has maximum "origin character" at City + roast level. This is definitely one of the most delicate and sweet decafs we have, but because it is such a spendy coffee before decaffeination, and the SWP method is expensive too, it ends up being a higher-priced decaf. I feel it is really worth it, based on the results here at the cupping table.

Score

87.6

Lot Size

18 Bags

Roast Recommendations

City+ roast is ideal and results in the most bright and sweet cup. One note: This roast of this coffee is a bit hard to judge by color because of the way decafs brown in the roast process (and Swiss Water decafs are maybe the darkest and most difficult to judge by surface color).

Processing

Wet Process

Varietal

Heirloom Varietals    

Grade & Appearance

Grade 2, 0 d/300gr, 17-18 Screen

Packaging

2 x 15 Lbs. nitrogen-flushed vacuum packs
Shipped in jute, vacuum packed at our warehouse
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A favorite sign, from Sidamo area.

Parchment coffee in the resting stage before final milling.

Hiding behind the coffee drying beds, in Sidamo

Typical Oromo house near Sidamo
 

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