What is G1 Coffee Beans: Ethiopia's Coffee Grade G1 - Exquisite Quality Through Rigorous Selection

FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Ethiopian Coffee Bean Grading System

The grading definition for Ethiopian coffee is quite complex.

Ethiopian coffee is sold through the trading system of the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange (ECX).

By providing a secure and reliable end-to-end commodity handling, grading, and storage system, ECX ensures that quotes and bids for commodity transactions are matched, along with a risk-free payment and goods delivery system. Finally settling transactions, it ensures the security needed by all commodity market participants in the marketplace while serving everyone fairly and efficiently.

The ECX's operational model for coffee trading roughly follows this process: First, farmers sell coffee cherries to local washing stations, with some washing stations paying higher prices to purchase higher quality coffee cherries. The washing stations send the processed green beans to warehouses at delivery stations.

Before the emergence of ECX, for washed coffee, export grades were divided into G1 and G2; for natural coffee, export grades were G3, G4, G5, which meant the highest grade for natural coffee was G3.

After ECX emerged, the grading system was redefined. While the grading names for washed coffee remained unchanged, for natural coffee, G1 appeared for the first time. This is why Ethiopian natural G1 and G2 now appear on the market, while G3 gradually becomes less common.

Washed coffee Grade 1 represents 0-3 defective beans per 300 grams of green beans;

Grade 2 represents 4-12 defective beans per 300 grams.

- Hand selection to pick out defective beans -

Of course, in reality, the standards for defective beans between sellers and buyers are certainly different, but the comparison of defect rates is still easy to distinguish. G1 obviously has fewer defective beans than G2, which means that excluding the influence of specific flavor and roasting degree, Ethiopian G1 coffee beans are of higher quality than G2 coffee beans, at least in terms of defective flavors, they can be clearly distinguished.

Knowledge point: Most coffee-producing countries do not execute coffee grading according to a single standard, but rather examine the defect rate, ensure bean size, and must have a certain altitude, using multiple standards to measure the grade of beans.

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