Ethiopian Washed Yirgacheffe Gr. 2 Dumerso Surafel Birhanu

Description

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe 2 Dumerso Surafel Birhanu is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Dumerso coffee mill located in in the town of Dumerso near the town of Yirgacheffe within the Gedeo Zone, Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples’ Region, Ethiopia. The Gedeo region is named after the Gedeo people who are indigenous to this area. The Dumerso mill is owned and operated by Surafel Birhanu and his family. During the harvest Surafel employs 400 people from the community to help. The Dumerso mill receives ripe cherries from 750 small coffee farmers. The cherries are sorted, depulped and then the beans covered in mucilage are fermented for 36 to 48 hours and then washed. The wet beans in parchment are placed on raised drying beds in thin layers and turned every 2 to 3 hours during the first few days of the drying process. Depending on weather, the beans are dried for 10 to 12 days until the moisture in the coffee beans is reduced to 11.5 percent. Then the beans are transported to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, to be milled and bagged prior to export.

Tasting Notes:
A great clean exotic cup of joe. Floral and soft fruit tones upfront balanced with a classic herbal tea like chocolaty undertone. Some good brightness on the lighter roasts and will give a citrus edge but pretty mellow close to 2nd crack and into the dark roast marks. Turns very strong and chocolaty, more of a bakers chocolate and smoky into the dark roasts.

Roasting Notes:
Good at almost any roast point but if you keep it on the lighter side, city to city plus you will see its true exotic Ethiopian roots come out. The darker you go the more chocolaty and fuller bodied it will get but right around 2nd crack it will turn a bit more bitter and edgy, otherwise a very smooth cup.