Ethiopia Dry Process Kercha Haruse

Cupping Notes:
On the "light and bright" end of the spectrum for dry process coffees, clean fresh fruits, citron essence, yuzu, and mandarin, lightly floral, fragrant black tea. Makes an excellent pour-over brew. City to City+.

Region: Guji Zone, Kercha
Processing: Dry Process (Natural)
Drying Method: Raised Bed Sun-Dried
Variety: Heirloom Varieties
Altitude: 2200 masl
Certification: Farm Gate

Farm Description:
This coffee is from a site near Kercha town, close to the border of Uraga in Ethiopia's southern Guji Zone. It's from a privately owned station who have an outgrower program with more than 1500 Guji farmers, whose coffee they buy, process, and export. In practice, this essentially means the mill owner is supplying small holders with seedlings, and often agronomical support as well, in order to promote coffee production in the regions they operate in. The family who owns the mill has 150,000 hectares of coffee too, and makes up a chunk of their exportable volume each year. There were many reasons to be drawn to their Haruse lot this season, with clean cup flavors topping the list. It shares a lot in common with washed coffee ("wet process"), especially in the brighter citrus notes and aromatic floral overlay that comes through when roasted in the City-City+ range. Most of the farmers who sell to Haruse have less than 1 hectare of coffee, and the farms reach as high as 2,200 meters above sea level in the region.

Description from Coffee Shrub.