Description
This is a good example of a tasty old world natural. Closer to a Yemen coffee than most other export grade Ethiopians. It will produce some lovely and unique tastes that can only be achieved in other old world coffees. High in chaff and will roast a bit uneven but worth the roasting challenge to get a unique and tasty cup.
This coffee is sourced from family owned farms in the legendary Harari region best known for the Harrar Horse coffee brand, which hasn’t been around for a long time. Coffees coming from Harrar are the reason Ethiopian Naturals are so famous. In the last 10 years the market has been dominated by the Yirgacheffee and Sidamo naturals which tend to be much more uniform but differ decently in taste charecteristics.
Tasting Notes: The cup is filled with real old world natural processed tones. Medium to low acidity, a little fuller bodied, the cup starts with hints of floral, and fruity tones balanced with nice dark chocolate, herbal, spice and semi sweet and smoky earthy tones. A strong medium to dark roast is smooth and balanced with nice exotic darker tones.
Roasting Notes: Part of what makes this cup wild is the purposeful contrast in tones – mostly in the Ethiopian world, this mean you will get a couple different roast points when playing with these guys. Awesome cup but a little more challenging to roast. The lucky part, the cup is super tasty if you just touch 2nd crack with it. Once it cools you will see plenty of medium roasted beans, which gives that awesome contrast of dark versus light tones. From there, you can go a bit lighter or darker dependent on personal taste. Careful with the light roasts for some of the beans can be decently too light and put off a little grassy herbal nutty tone.
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