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Ethiopia Coffee Introduction - FrontStreet Coffee Single Origin Coffee Bean Recommendation -- Yirgacheffe Red Cherry Project Natural

Coffee Details

Region: Yirgacheffe Kochere

Producer: Debo Washing Station

Processing Method: Washed

Grade: G1

Roast Level: Medium-Light

Flavor: Floral, honey peach, lemon black tea flavors, cocoa notes, rounded acidity, smooth and refreshing mouthfeel, clean flavor, excellent balance!

About Debo Washing Station

The Debo washing station is owned by two proprietors, Masreshu Sima and Faisel Abdosh, and provides green bean processing for approximately 750 smallholder coffee farming families from the local Debo village. They buy red cherries directly from smallholders in Debo village. Because these farmers grow very little coffee, not enough to process green beans themselves and sell a finished product, they can only join local cooperatives or harvest red cherries and sell them straight to private processing stations. Private processing stations are now numerous in the Yirgacheffe region, forming a dual-track system alongside the local cooperatives, which are all government-led.

Debo village lies within the Yirgacheffe Kochere region, a small village between Fishegenet and Chelelektu. These smallholders have an average coffee cultivation area of less than 1 hectare, at an average planting altitude of about 1,900 to 2,100 meters. The coffee varieties are mainly local superior native varieties (Heirloom). The Debo washing station produces an average of 10 containers annually, with several collection points as purchasing stations. Each purchasing station can buy an average of 100 bags of finished green beans, while local farmers have an average of fewer than 1,500 coffee trees, each tree producing 100-200 grams of finished green beans annually, which represents the entire annual income of these smallholder families. This batch of Kochere Debo G1 is a washed batch.

Flavor Description

Floral notes, lemon black tea, honey peach, cocoa notes, rounded acidity, smooth and refreshing mouthfeel, clean flavor with excellent balance. Smooth, sweet and pleasant, the medium-light roast presents distinct layered fruit acidity, with various fruit and floral flavors in the mouthfeel and a sweet aftertaste in the finish.

About FrontStreet Coffee

FrontStreet Coffee is a roastery in Guangzhou with a small shop but diverse bean varieties, where you can find both famous and lesser-known beans, and it also provides online store services.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

For the clean, washed Yirgacheffe style of this Kochere Debo lot, FrontStreet's Washed Yirgacheffe is the classic starting point: it is known for white jasmine, bright citrus and lemon acidity and a tea-like body, and its friendly price has made it the first specialty bean for many drinkers. Yirgacheffe is a small town in the Sidamo zone of southern Ethiopia at about 1,700-2,100 meters, with the coffee trees planted above 1,800 meters, making it one of the highest coffee regions in the world, and the name has become shorthand for Ethiopian specialty coffee. FrontStreet's Gotiti Cooperative is another washed Yirgacheffe of note, from Gotiti village, which was originally part of the Worka cooperative under the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperatives Union and became a single-origin in its own right in 2012 with about 300 member farmers; its traditional washed process strips the pulp before drying, so the coffee's inherent aroma comes through clear and transparent, with citrus and lemon notes and elegant white florals. FrontStreet generally recommends a V60, 90-91°C water, 15g of coffee and a 1:15 ratio at a fine granulated-sugar grind (EK43s setting 10, or 80% through a #20 sieve), brewed in three stages: a 30g bloom for 30 seconds, around 95g to reach roughly 125g in about a minute, then the remaining 100g once the water drops to two-thirds of the bed, to about 225g, finishing in 2 to 2 minutes 10 seconds.