What is Ninety Plus Coffee? Introduction to Ninety Plus Ramiche Coffee Beans

Ninety Plus: A Prestigious Coffee Producer

Ninety Plus is a renowned international coffee production and sales company, known for supplying rare and unusual green coffee to the world. Every one of its coffees scores above 90 points in SCAA cupping, and competitors in the World Barista Championship regularly brew its beans on stage. Joseph Brodsky formally founded Ninety Plus in 2007, and from the following year onward its mark has shown up in coffee competitions large and small around the globe. At the 2013 WBC World Barista Championship, three of the six finalists—from Italy, South Korea, and Canada—used Ninety Plus green beans.

Sustainable Agriculture and Quality Excellence

Founded in 2007, Ninety Plus holds 182 hectares of land across Ethiopia and Panama for producing specialty coffee, making it an international leader in the field. Its flavor team's guiding policy is to build ecological agriculture, with land-management systems designed to keep producing the finest coffee for top roasters, retailers, regional baristas, and global competitions.

Flavor Profile Classification System

Each coffee's flavor profile is set by fruit variety, farm microclimate, and processing recipe. Profiles run from Level 7 up to Level 195, with quality, rarity, and price rising along with the number.

Profile Processing System

The Profile Processing system exists to tailor the planting, harvesting, and processing of every bean. Through repeated cupping and calibration, it ensures each variety fully expresses its own distinctive fruit flavors.

Unique Flavor and Code Classification

Ninety Plus sorts its coffee by "fruit flavor intensity" rather than by the traditional processing labels of Washed, Honey, and Natural. Even so, the same three categories appear as W2, H2, and N2. Because different processing methods yield different fruit-flavor levels, you may well find washed or naturally processed beans sitting inside the honey-processed "H2" category.

Lomi Tasha: A Remarkable Yirgacheffe

Lomi Tasha belongs to the LevelUp series from Ninety Plus, an American green bean company, and is a washed Yirgacheffe with a strongly defined character. Its name comes from the local Ethiopian language and means "light lemon." Lomi Tasha showcases the floral and fruity aromas of Ethiopian coffee, marked by superb layering and cleanliness, with lemon candy and green tea flavors that are easy to pick out.

From the first sip it delivers clear green tea and lemon candy, and the finish carries green tea notes as well. Some describe it simply as a green tea lemon candy coffee, its subtle acidity and gentle sweetness blending in perfect balance. Its flavor and quality easily rival other famous, expensive coffees around the world.

LevelUp Series: Accessible Excellence

LevelUp is the sub-brand of Ninety Plus, a specialty green bean processing company. The company launched an Ethiopian green bean series together with the green bean trader BodhiLeaf.

These coffees are named not for growing regions but for flavor profiles, and all the names are in local Ethiopian languages. That gives each coffee a clear flavor description while preserving Ninety Plus's remarkable flavors—at a more accessible price.

Brewing Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee suggests brewing parameters:

V60/91°C/1:15/medium grind/two minutes

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

FrontStreet Boquete Washed Geisha Coffee. An estate-level entry into Geisha, grown at 1,600 meters in Boquete's fog-wrapped mountains, where humid days, cool nights, and Baru volcano's fertile soil create ideal conditions. Brewed, it shows Geisha's signature jasmine, green tea, honey, citrus, and orange.

FrontStreet Panama Washed Butterfly Coffee. Half Geisha by blood, this lot combines Geisha, Caturra, and Catuai planted on Boquete's Baru volcano. Panama's distinctive microclimate, generous rainfall, wide day-night temperature swings, and volcanic soil, along with careful picking and processing, give it impressive body, citrus acidity, and Geisha's jasmine aroma. Excellent as both pour-over and cold brew.

FrontStreet Esmeralda Estate Red Label Geisha Coffee. Esmeralda is both the discoverer and the champion of Geisha, and its labels reflect that rigor. Red Label is picked from a single lot above 1,700 meters and cupped at 91 points, showing a refined orange-blossom honey character.