Ethiopia -Espresso- 250g

Country / Region / Farmer: Ethiopia - Banco Gotiti - Mr. Alemu Berasso

Variety, grade: Yirgacheffe G1 (Dega, Kurume, 74110, 74112)

Preparation: Natural/Sundried

Grind: Whole beans

Preparation methods: Portafilter, FrenchPress, Aeropress, Cold Brew

Bag of 250g

Gedeb Woreda is one of the woredas in the Gedeo Zone that produces Yirgacheffe type coffee. The truth is most of the Yirgacheffe type coffee producing are located in Gedeb woreda. Unfortunately though Gedeb is living in the shadows of its famous brother Yirgacheffe woreda. Banco Gotiti is one of the kebeles in Gedeb woreda producing fine Yirgacheffe coffees. Banco Gotiti and its neighboring kebeles (Chelchele, Hallo Beriti, and Werqaha Sacarro) became coffee growing later than Yirgacheffe, and there are still new plots still being planted with coffee trees for the first time. Ironically, bad guy climate change has made it possible to grow coffee on highlands of Gedeb woreda which were previously considered too cold to grow coffee.

The farmer, Mr. Alemu Berasso is one of the earlier settler of Banco Gotiti, and he remembers when goverment people first introduced coffee farming in the early 1960s. He produces around 7000 kg of exportable green coffee from his seven hectares garden style organic farm.  Though most of his trees are now replaced by newer verities, Mr. Berasso proudly shows you some of his 40 plus years old coffee trees that are as tall as a two story building. He mainly kept them for their historical purpose but he does think those old trees sometimes give more cherries than the younger trees.  

Extraction recommendation:

1g espresso ≈ 1ml espresso

Portafilter machines

DoppioEspresso: 18.5-19.0g coffee powder IN / time: 23-27sec / 38-47g espresso OUT in the cup.

SingleEspresso: 9.5-10.5g coffee powder IN / time: 22-28sec / 21-26g espresso OUT in the cup