What Black Coffee is Delicious and Not Acidic? Natural Process Guji Coffee Beans with Tropical Fruit Notes Are All You Need

Introduction to FrontStreet Coffee's Sidamo Horseman Coffee

Life inevitably has its difficult stretches. Sometimes the answer is a break at a coffee shop: order a single origin with a distinctive flavor, savor its character, and let your mood be wrapped in warm aroma until the worries fade.

Today's coffee is the naturally processed Horseman from Ethiopia. It has a rich, wine-like aroma layered with chocolate, hazelnut, and spice notes—once tasted, never forgotten. The Horseman processing station sits in a village at 2,200 meters, and its unique growing environment and climate create the coffee's signature flavor. The natural-processed Horseman in particular has an even more singular, intense aroma.

The Horseman station uses micro-batch natural processing. The fresh cherries are harvested only when their sugar content reaches 30 degrees, and fermentation time is precisely controlled to maintain the red cherries' moisture so the fructose can fully ferment and react, producing remarkably high sweetness. The dry aroma suggests vanilla ice cream with ripe apricot; the wet aroma offers gentle, warm honey sweetness with passionfruit; the aftertaste is chocolate almond.

In 2017, Ethiopia's DW green coffee company sent its beans to the TOH (Taste of Harvest) competition hosted by the African Fine Coffee Association. Their natural-processed lot won first place in the TOH Ethiopia green bean competition, and as champion it was named "Horseman."

Coffee Details

Region: Sidamo / Ethiopia Sidamo

Estate: Buku Abel Village / Hambella

Variety: Ethiopian Heirloom

Altitude: 2200m

Grade: G1

Processing: Natural

Flavor: Juicy apricot, honey peach, passionfruit, honey sweetness, vanilla ice cream

About FrontStreet Coffee

In short: FrontStreet Coffee is a coffee research establishment dedicated to sharing coffee knowledge with everyone. Our unrestrained sharing exists simply to help more friends fall in love with coffee. We also hold three discounted coffee events every month because FrontStreet Coffee wants to provide the best coffee at the lowest prices to more friends. This has been our mission for the past six years!

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If a sweet, low-bitterness, fruit-forward black coffee is what you're looking for, FrontStreet Coffee's Ethiopia lineup delivers. The Natural Hambella (Hua Kui) from the Hambella region of Sidamo Guji—dried 21 days on raised beds across a 200-hectare farm—shows light fermented wine aroma, florals, citrus, and mango, with honeyed sweetness, cocoa, and spice over a thick, persistent body. The Natural Red Cherry (Red Cherry Project) lot is equally striking, with peach, cocoa, honey, and lemon in the cup.

For washed clarity instead, start with the entry-level Washed Yirgacheffe—jasmine florals and bright citrus acidity, tasting like a clean lemon tea—or the Konga (Guodingding) Cooperative lot with its citrus, lemon, and elegant white florals. And for something truly distinctive, the Hamhamcho (Hama Xiu) 74158 from the JARC 74-series offers perfume lemon, strawberry, star fruit, and green grape sweetness with a lingering floral finish.