Ethiopia Organic Guji Kayon Mountain washed

TIP: You can save products to your favorites list if you log in Ethiopia! As always, when it rains, it pours, and as 2020 harvest is slowly arriving in the US there are many fine options in both natural
(dried-in-the-fruit)and washed process. The viral scourge has directly hit the coffee industry and for a lot of reasons East African coffees
have been delayed by months, and we are lucky to have this fine certified Organic, washed-process-dessert-in-a-cup from Kayon Mountain Coffee Farms PLC is a relatively new (ca. 2012) enterprise which is big enough to do direct export (ca. roughly 2015), taking advantage of the loosened strictures of the Ethiopia Coffee Exchange (ECX). Managed by an experienced producer and trader, Ismael Hassen Aredo. Edema, this farm is vertically integrated and does its own milling.
Grown at 1900-2200 meters, this "double-washed" coffee, ripe cherry is depulped, fermented, washed and then soaked in clean water before drying on raised beds in the sun. Superb preparation is evinced in the cup; our light-medium roast evinces sweetness, blueberry/compote and chocolate notes. Roasters have had a field day with this coffee, taking home recent Good Food Awards for both the natural (which we had last year and hope to have again when it's available) and washed offerings of Kayon Mountain Farms. Awesome pourover and drip!