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FrontStreet Coffee Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Aricha Natural G1

Region Introduction

Yirgacheffe is a small town in Ethiopia, with an altitude of 1700-2100 meters. It is one of the highest altitude coffee growing regions in the world and also synonymous with Ethiopian specialty coffee. Lake Turkana, Lake Abaya, and Lake Chamo bring abundant water vapor to this area. The rift valley, represented by Misty Valley, is shrouded in mist year-round, with spring-like seasons, gentle breezes, cool and humid conditions. Thousands of coffee tree varieties thrive and multiply here, nurturing the unique terroir of FrontStreet Coffee's Yirgacheffe, where floral and fruity aromas intertwine in an ambiguous and unpredictable manner.

Adorsi Processing Station

The natural category of the 2019 Ethiopian Harvest Season Cupping Competition was won by Adorsi Processing Station. Adorsi Processing Station is owned by Testi Coffee, a coffee export company operated by the Yonis family, founded in 2009 by Faysel A. Yonis. In terms of competition results, this championship batch scored 91 points. Last year's Mudan (Peony) won 88 points in the same competition, making Adorsi's score 3 points higher this year.

Taste of Harvest (TOH)

Taste of Harvest (TOH) "Harvest Season Flavor Cupping Competition" is a green bean competition held among African producing countries by the African Fine Coffees Association (AFCA), similar to the Cup of Excellence in Central and South America.

Currently, there are seven member countries: Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia, and the Republic of Congo. The competition is divided into regional competitions and the entire African competition. In the preliminaries, batches with cupping scores below 80 points are eliminated. TOH selects the highest quality green beans from each producing region, which are cupped and scored by domestic and international judges based on the standards of the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA). This batch scored the highest 88.58 points this year to win the championship!

Variety Introduction

The variety of this FrontStreet Coffee Yirgacheffe bean is the local native variety. People who often drink Ethiopian coffee should have heard of the "Heirloom" variety. Most Ethiopian varieties are named this way, mainly because Ethiopia has too many varieties. It's like a natural gene bank for Arabica - on one hand, there are numerous varieties making identification and classification difficult; on the other hand, the Ethiopian government is reluctant to disclose this variety information for protection reasons, so they are collectively called "Heirloom native varieties."

Ethiopia has nearly 2000 recorded coffee varieties, including 1927 native varieties and 128 introduced foreign varieties. So purely in terms of appearance, Ethiopian coffee varieties are like a "grand view garden" - there's everything inside, long, short, thin, fat...

Processing Method

This FrontStreet Coffee Yirgacheffe coffee bean is naturally processed.

1. Harvest mature coffee cherries
2. Initial sorting to remove impurities and defective beans
3. Screening floaters: Coffee cherries are poured into water tanks, where mature and full fruits will sink to the bottom, while immature or damaged fruits will float to the surface.
4. Natural drying: The mature coffee cherries that sank to the bottom are scooped out and spread in the drying field for natural drying, reducing moisture from 70% to about 10-12%. They need to be turned several times daily for even drying, and must be covered at night to avoid moisture absorption.
5. Remove outer shell: After about two to four weeks of drying, the outer layer of the coffee seeds has dried and hardened. At this point, a hulling machine is used to remove the outer shell to complete the process.

Product Details

Product Name: FrontStreet Coffee Yirgacheffe Aricha Natural G1

Region: Yirgacheffe Adorsi Processing Station

Altitude: 1900-2000m

Processing Method: Natural

Grade: G1

Variety: Heirloom Native Varieties

Cupping Notes: Grape juice, jackfruit, fermented wine aroma, citrus, lemon

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