Ethiopia Guji Chelbessa Coffee Roasting Guide - How to Brew V60 Pour-Over Guji Chelbessa Coffee

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Light-Medium Roast | Ethiopia Shantawene Natural 90+ Level Up LOMI TASHA

Flavor Description

Floral notes, tropical fruits, peach-like sweetness.

Roaster's Notes

This batch of Shantawene comes from the Sidamo region of Ethiopia. Altitude ranges from 1,750 to 2,000 meters. Its density and characteristic tropical fruit and peach-like sweetness are remarkable.

The richness, lingering aftertaste, and peach-like sweetness are truly captivating. During the evaporation phase, sufficient heat and time were provided, while no special treatment was applied during the Maillard reaction. This slowed down the reaction rate, bringing out delicate flavors.

90+ Level Up is a sub-brand of Ninety Plus, a specialty green coffee processing company renowned worldwide for providing rare and unique green coffee beans.

The sophisticated cultivation and processing of green coffee beans are custom-tailored for every single bean, from planting and harvesting to post-processing details. Through repeated cupping and calibration, each coffee variety is enabled to express its unique flavors.

From 2008 to the present, we can see Ninety Plus' award-winning traces in coffee competitions of all sizes worldwide, where their beans are used by competing baristas.

Shantawene Coffee Roasting Reference

Coffee beans with such brilliant flavors are naturally not suitable for medium-dark roasting. Therefore, this coffee is best prepared using light slow roasting to highlight its rounded sweetness and rich floral and fruit aromas.

Roaster: Yangjia 600g Semi-direct Flame

Using the quick-frying mode, preheat to 200°C before adding beans, with the air damper set to 3. After 30 seconds, adjust heat to 150°C, keeping the air damper unchanged. The temperature return point occurs at 1'32", reaching 103.7°C. Dehydration time is 5'21", at which point the bean surface turns yellow and the grassy aroma completely disappears. Adjust heat once at 150°C when dehydration is complete, then set heat to 100°C and air damper to 4.

At 8 minutes 45 seconds, ugly wrinkles and black spots appear on the bean surface, and the toast aroma clearly transitions to coffee aroma - this can be defined as the prelude to first crack. First crack begins at 9'00 - at this moment, listen carefully for the sound of first crack and reduce heat to 80°C, opening the air damper fully to 5 (heat adjustment must be very careful - not so low that the cracking sound disappears). At 1'55" after first crack, remove from the roaster at 195°C.

Hario V60 Shantawene Extraction Record

1. Grind Size: Little Fuji setting 5, approximately white sugar grain size.

2. Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:16. 15g coffee grounds, total water injection 240cc.

3. Water Temperature: 88-90°C

4. Extraction Time: Total extraction time 1 minute 55 seconds.

Inject 30cc of water, bloom for 25-30 seconds.

Continue injection to 240cc, then stop water. When dripping ends, remove the filter cone to complete.

Clever Dripper Shantawene Extraction Record

1. Grind Size: Little Fuji setting 3.5, approximately fine sugar grain size.

2. Coffee-to-Water Ratio: 1:16. 15g coffee grounds, total water injection 240cc.

3. Water Temperature: 94-92°C

4. Extraction Time: Total extraction time 2 minutes 40 seconds.

Inject 30cc of water, bloom for 25-30 seconds.

Continue injection to total water volume of 210cc, then stop water. At 2 minutes 10 seconds, stir gently, then place the filter cone on the lower server for dripping.

When dripping ends, remove the filter cone to complete.

Espresso Shantawene Extraction Record

Dose: 19g

Water Temperature: 90-92°C

Pressure: 8.5-9 bar

Pre-infusion Time: 6-7 seconds

Total Extraction Time: 27-28 seconds

Yield: 48-50cc

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