Ethiopian Yirgacheffe Konga Gr. 3 Natural

Description

These beans are coming from more than 800 farmers living in Konga. A village near the Yirgacheffe District of the Gedeo Zone within the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State, Ethiopia.

Farmers deliver ripe cherries to the Konga Coffee Station which is owned and operated by Mekuria Mergia. Ripe cherries are carefully selected at the Konga Coffee Station and immediately placed on raised beds and dried over a period of 15 to 20 days. The raised drying beds are carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for an optimal drying process.

Cherries are also turned regularly on the beds to prevent damage during the drying process. The cherries are stored in a local warehouse after the moisture is reduced to between 11.5 and 12 percent, and then transported to Addis Ababa where the coffee is milled, screened and exported.

Tasting Notes: A very tasty offering; nice fruit forward cup on the sweeter side. These beans taste and roast more similar to a gr. 1 than our last couple of gr. 3 offerings. Smooth and delicate cup, a little citric/floral at the lighter roast points but quickly turning into more of a red/stone fruit tone especially as the cup cools. Those lovely fruit tones are balanced nicely up until the darker roast points with a smooth chocolaty note, pretty faint at the lighter roasts but the predominate tone as one pushes close to 2nd crack. Into 2nd crack it turns much edgier and burns out the sweeter delicate tones.

Roasting Notes: Will roast nice and even making this an easier to roast natural. A little heavier on the chaff but nothing out of the ordinary. Make sure to keep it before 2nd crack to see it shine.