Red Cherry Project Bensa Coffee Introduction - Red Cherry Pour-over Coffee Flavor and Taste Profile

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Organic Natural Bensa is another representative of high-quality coffee from the Red Cherry Project. It comes from Bansa, a town in the Sidama Zone (an administrative region adjacent to the Gedeo Zone, which produces Yirgacheffe). The entire Sidama region has ten towns (Woreda), such as Dale, Yirgalem, Aleta Wondo... Besides being part of the Red Cherry Project, since Trabocca's parent company, Trading Organic, is one of Europe's most prominent organic ingredient manufacturers, they have also helped farmers in Bansa obtain organic certification.

In this project, careful women select fully ripe coffee cherries, so 100% are harvested when the coffee cherries are completely mature. This makes a significant difference in the flavor of the brewed coffee, so diligent Ethiopian women with good eyesight and willingness to work hard are crucial drivers of the Red Cherry Project. The Red Cherry Action includes washed, natural, semi-washed, semi-natural, and experimental coffees.

Trabocca, the promoter of the Red Cherry Project, has invested all the profits earned in recent years back into all cooperative farms. Trabocca emphasizes that this is a non-profit project, so the company only uses 4 people including the boss and secretary to execute the Red Cherry Project. Other administrative-related matters are supported by the parent company to reduce administrative expenses, with all profits returned to the cooperative farms.

Since 2005, they have been selecting small-scale coffee cooperatives at high altitudes in the current Sidama, Yirgacheffe, and Limu regions. They encourage and assist producers to do their best to improve washing, semi-washing, natural, or other experimental processing methods to enhance coffee quality. Through testing (professional cuppers are also stationed in coffee-producing regions to directly grasp the coffee flavor), they ensure the quality of each batch produced.

This coffee is a sample bean that FrontStreet Coffee recently acquired. Let's try brewing it to see what flavors it has!

Bansa Cooperative

Grade | Red Cherry Project Batch

Altitude | 1800-1900m

Pour-over parameters: 15g of coffee, V60 dripper, water temperature 90°C, powder-to-water ratio 1:15, grind size BG 5S (China standard 20-mesh screen pass rate 58%).

Technique: Bloom with 30g of water for 30 seconds, then pour quickly with a small water flow to 125g in sections. When the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed, continue pouring to 227g and stop the water. When the coffee bed is about to be exposed, remove the dripper. Extraction time from the start of blooming is about two minutes.

Flavor profile: Pineapple, jackfruit, mango, and other tropical fruit flavors, ripe cherry, honey sweetness, fermented rum aroma from coffee fruit...

Knowledge extension: Operation Cherry Red (ORC) is a quality improvement project for small-scale farms. This project is a European Union initiative proposed by the Dutch government and led by the Dutch trading company Trabocca BV.

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