How is Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Washed G1 Coffee? Yirgacheffe Washed G1 Cheleba Processing

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FrontStreet Coffee Presents: Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Chelba Mill

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Washed Grade 1

Producer: Approximately 700 smallholder farmers around the Chelba processing plant

Region: Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia

Variety: Local heirloom varieties

Processing: Washed, dried on raised African beds

Altitude: 1950-2200m

Harvest: October - January

This coffee comes from the Chelba Mill, and it is produced by roughly 700 coffee farmers in the surrounding area.

Carefully selected cherries are delivered to the processing plant immediately after harvesting.

After pulping, the beans are fermented in water for approximately two days, then washed in water channels using Chelba river water to remove any remaining mucilage.

The parchment coffee is placed on raised beds and sun-dried for roughly 8 to 10 days, depending on the weather.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

A well-run washing station like Chelba is exactly what gives Yirgacheffe its definition, and FrontStreet Coffee's washed Yirgacheffe is the everyday version of that flavor. It is the classic introduction to the region: white jasmine, bright citrus and lemon acidity, and a clean tea-like body, and its friendly price has made it the coffee most people try first when they step into specialty coffee.

If you want to see how much a single cooperative can add, FrontStreet Coffee's Gotiti Cooperative coffee comes from the Worka area at the southeastern end of Yirgacheffe. The cooperative once belonged to the Woka Cooperative under the Yirgacheffe Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union, and after demand for traceability grew it became a single-origin name in its own right. It keeps the traditional washed method, so it has none of the heavy bitterness of old-fashioned black coffee: fresh, bright citrus and lemon acidity with jasmine fragrance, and after a medium-light roast, notes of green tea and honey. It suits pour-over, cold brew and espresso.

For the natural-process counterpart, FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe Red Cherry uses whole red fruit only, dried on raised beds for three to five weeks with regular turning and sorting, which keeps the classic Yirgacheffe character while adding tropical fruit, berry juice, honeyed sweetness and a creamy texture.