How to Pour Over Washed Sidamo? Washed Sidamo Flavor Characteristics Introduction - How Much Does Washed Sidamo Cost

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Sidamo - Origin

Sidamo coffee beans offer extremely diverse flavors because different soil compositions, regional microclimates, and countless native coffee varieties create distinct differences and characteristics in the coffee produced by each town area. The Sidamo region is located in southern Ethiopia. The industry here is primarily agricultural, with coffee growing areas situated around the Great Rift Valley.

"Ethiopian Sidamo coffee beans" are a single-origin type, Arabica coffee grown in Ethiopia's Sidamo province. Like most African coffees, Ethiopian Sidamo coffee beans are characterized by small gray beans, but their distinguishing features are rich, spicy, wine-like or chocolate-like flavors and floral aromas. The most characteristic flavors found in all Sidamo coffee beans are lemon and citrus, with bright, crisp acidity.

Washed Processing - Raw Bean Processing Method

Washed-processed Sidamo coffee beans are less likely to carry wild flavors, possessing pure and refreshing characteristics, making them suitable for City to Full City roast levels. Some exceptionally high-quality Ethiopian washed coffee beans may sometimes reveal obvious uplifting lemon, citrus essential oils, jasmine floral notes, honey flavors, etc., with more pronounced acidity and lighter body.

What is G1 - Grading

Ethiopian coffee beans use this defect bean ratio grading method. Indonesian beans are mainly divided into 6 grades, namely G1~G6. Ethiopia also uses this method, with the highest grades for washed beans being G1 and G2; the highest grades for natural-processed beans are G1 and G3.

Washed: Grade-1; Grade-2 (G1>G2)

Natural: Grade-1 and Grade-3~Grade-5 (G1>G3>G4>G5)

Processing Area Introduction - Growing Region

Shakisso is located in the Guji zone of Sidamo, in the southern part of the Oromia region, adjacent to Sidama and Gedeo. This area has many mining pits that were originally used for gold mining, so there are many holes in this coffee growing area. This makes walking between coffee growing areas dangerous. Shakisso is a unique growing area in Guji/Sidamo, even within Sidamo it's a remote area far from most coffee origins, and the region's other famous product is gold mines. Factors such as miners, land, and ethnic groups also made this region turbulent in 2006. Therefore, the biggest problem this area faces now is the need for manpower to maintain the growing areas and harvest coffee.

Local small farmers in this area began growing organic coffee in 2001 and work closely with medium-sized coffee producers because they are familiar with how to grow forest coffee in highland areas. It is one of the micro-regions with very distinctive regional characteristics within the Sidamo growing area. Coffee from this region has considerable uniqueness, and the coffee produced has repeatedly gained market attention. The legendary Ninety Plus bean (nekisse) originally means nectar from Shakisso, and its origin and naming both come from Shakisso.

Flavor description: Lemon and citrus, bright crisp acidity, lemon, citrus, white grape juice, black currant, with Earl Grey tea notes in the finish.

Sidamo Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

Sidamo coffee beans roasted by FrontStreet Coffee offer full guarantees in both brand and quality. More importantly, they provide extremely high value for money - a 227-gram package costs only 98 yuan. Calculating based on 15 grams per cup, one package can make 15 cups of coffee, with each cup costing only about 6 yuan. Compared to coffee shops that sell cups for tens of yuan, this is truly a conscientious recommendation.

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