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About Guji Coffee Bean - Anasora Coffee Estate

This coffee, Anasora, comes from a single private estate in Guji established in 2013. The estate sits in Anasora village in the Guji Zone of southeastern Oromia, with a cultivation range of 1900-2350 meters. Excellent geography, an ideal growing environment and slow sun-drying on African drying beds make this coffee stand out. The estate covers 250 hectares in total, of which 150 hectares are currently producing, with another 100 hectares coming into production in 2018.

A river called Turo runs through the estate, and a washing station was built beside it, which is why Anasora also produces washed lots. Most people near the estate are Oromo and speak the Oromo language; about 45% of Ethiopia's population speaks Oromifa. Anasora always helps nearby farmers, assisting them with cultivation techniques. There is also a Yerba Buleye middle school in the area, and Anasora is working to establish a second middle school to help educate farmers' children. The estate also supports neighboring orphanages and provides higher-level education facilities, hoping to give back to the local community and help it achieve better lives.

Mormora Farm lies in the Guji Zone of Ethiopia's Oromia Region. The name Guji comes from the ethnic group living there, which sits at the centre of the coffee-growing plateau's geography and culture. This is a coffee with the characteristics of both Yirgacheffe and Sidamo. (Note: coffee grown in southern Ethiopia was long called Sidamo, after the former administrative division. As the coffee grading and auction system developed, Yirgacheffe gradually became a commercial name and the divisions were redrawn: western Yirgacheffe town fell under the Gedeo Zone of the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region, while Guji Province in the east, part of the Oromia Region, is regarded as a newly developed coffee area, much as Yirgacheffe once was to Sidamo.)

Shakiso Mormora Farm began in 2012 as a family-style farm. It covers about 250 hectares at an altitude of roughly 2000-2300 meters. The coffee is grown mixed in with natural forest. (Note: coffee needs shade, so farmers often plant crops such as bananas alongside it, but here it is planted directly into the forest, which preserves ecological diversity, avoids the damage that single-crop planting does to the natural environment, and maintains the nutrients the soil ecosystem produces naturally. This is an organic approach that uses no pesticides or artificial fertilizers. Avoiding a single coffee variety also helps against natural disasters and pests and diseases.) Ethiopia is a place of origin with an enormous number of coffee varieties. Farmers collect and separate suitable varieties from the forest for cultivation and keep planting them in natural environments. Beyond its own crop, Mormora Farm also buys coffee from small farmers nearby.

It also advises those small farmers on cultivation techniques and harvesting and processing methods. At present, the Guji highlands have only sun-drying processing plants; washed processing facilities will be added in the future.

V60 Brewing Method:

1. Grind size: Fuji scale 3.5, approximately the size of granulated sugar.

2. Coffee-to-water ratio: 16:1, total water 225g, 15g coffee.

3. Brewing water temperature: 88-90 degrees Celsius.

4. Extraction time: 1 minute 55 seconds total. Inject 30cc and bloom for 30 seconds. Inject water to 225cc and stop, then remove the filter cone at 1 minute 55 seconds to finish.

Guji Coffee Bean Brand Recommendations

Guji beans roasted by FrontStreet Coffee, including the Hambella Flower Queen 2.0, offer full guarantees on brand and quality. More importantly, they offer exceptional value: each pack is 227 grams and priced at only about 98 yuan. At 15 grams per cup, one pack makes 15 cups, putting each cup at only about 6 yuan. Compared with cafes selling cups for dozens of yuan each, that is a genuinely conscientious recommendation.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Guji's position, next door to Yirgacheffe and Sidamo, means FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe lineup is the most natural place to explore the family resemblance. The washed Yirgacheffe everyday coffee is the classic starting point, known for white jasmine, bright citrus and lemon acidity and a tea-like body, and it is the first bean many drinkers try on their way into specialty coffee.

To go deeper, FrontStreet Coffee's washed Gudingding Cooperative comes from the Gudingding village in the Woka area at the southeastern end of Yirgacheffe. It was originally part of the Woka Cooperative under the Yirgacheffe union YCFCU, and as demand for traceability grew it was separated out as a single-origin lot. It follows the most traditional washed process and shows fresh, bright citrus and lemon acidity with jasmine fragrance and no bitter edge.

If you would rather stay on the sun-dried side, as most Guji lots currently are, FrontStreet Coffee's Sun-Dried Red Cherry uses only fully ripe, sound cherries. They are screened, then dried on raised beds, turned every 2-3 hours in the first few days so they do not ferment unevenly, and after three to five weeks the outer fruit is machine-scraped off and the beans are stored. Because the cherries dry with the fruit still on, the cup keeps the classic Yirgacheffe character alongside tropical fruit from the sun-drying: citrus acidity, berry juice, honeyed sweetness and a creamy smoothness.

All of these suit the same V60 approach: 15g of coffee, a 1:15 ratio, a grind around fine granulated sugar, water at 90-91°C, a 30g bloom for 30 seconds, then pours to 95g and on to 100g, finishing around 2 minutes to 2 minutes 10 seconds.