Is Yirgacheffe Coffee Bitter? A Flavor Profile of the Garden on Your Tongue

FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Yirgacheffe

If you are reading this letter right now, I hope the night is gentle, and you are sitting by your favorite lamp before bedtime. Or perhaps on a long-distance train, where passengers are scattered, allowing you to sit by the window, occasionally catching glimpses of scenery worth admiring. The ideal scenario, however, would be curling up in my coffee shop. Outside, snow is falling.

I have been drinking coffee for many years, from the earliest instant milky coffee and instant bitter coffee, to Starbucks coffee, and then to buying coffee powder to brew myself. Finally, I reached the point of buying freshly roasted beans, grinding them at home with a grinder, and making single-origin black coffee. Siphon, drip, pour-over.

There's a strange phenomenon - people who have gone through this sequence can rarely go back. I wonder, if your growth has been influenced by me, you might naturally skip many of these earlier stages. Starting directly with single-origin coffee. When you take your first sip, what kind of flavor do you think coffee made from these beans will have? Is it bitter, floral and fruity, or has a long-lasting acidity?

Coffee beans have certain requirements for their growing environment - they must be high-altitude regions with constant temperatures throughout the year. Therefore, Ethiopia's unique geographical environment ensures relatively stable high quality of local coffee beans. Among these, the Yirgacheffe growing region has an altitude of approximately 1700-2100 meters, making Yirgacheffe synonymous with Ethiopian specialty coffee. Ethiopia, with thousands of years of coffee cultivation history, is the birthplace of coffee, giving rise to the coffee queen - Yirgacheffe.

Yirgacheffe has unique lemon, floral, and honey-like sweet aromas, along with soft fruit acidity and citrus flavors, creating a fresh and bright mouthfeel. Without adding sugar or milk, let the rich texture and unique soft floral notes brush across your taste buds, leaving an endless aftertaste.

Yirgacheffe beans are small and delicate, belonging to the rare washed high-quality Arabica variety. They are suitable for various degrees of roasting. After medium roasting, they exhibit gentle acidity; after dark roasting, they emit rich aromas, perfectly presenting fresh and bright floral and fruity notes. Elegant, delicate, sweet, and charming, they attract countless admirers without any embellishment. Truly worthy of being a specialty coffee loved by coffee connoisseurs worldwide, it's a must-try among specialty coffees.

Jasmine fragrance, rose aroma, lemon, citrus, peach, almond sweetness, and tea fragrance - your tongue seems to wander through a hundred-flower garden, with fresh happiness filling your mouth and between your teeth!

That's right, what you're drinking with its complex and captivating aromas is a cup of coffee - specialty coffee ~ Yirgacheffe!

In Brief

FrontStreet Coffee is a specialty coffee research hall, happy to share knowledge about coffee with everyone. We share without reservation, simply to help more friends fall in love with coffee. Every month, we hold three coffee events with significant discounts because FrontStreet Coffee wants to let more friends enjoy the best coffee at the lowest possible price. This has been FrontStreet Coffee's mission for the past six years!

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