Ethiopia Gera-Goma
SWP Decaf

Tasting Notes

FLAVOR: Floral, Honey, Apricot, Fruited Chocolate

BODY: Medium

ACIDITY: Mild

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Recommended Roast Level

Medium/Dark

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About the Coffee

This coffee is naturally decaffeinated using the Swiss Water Process and is comprised of a blend from several coffee growing regions of Ethiopia (Gera, Goma, Jimma, and Bashasha). With a blend of regions comes also a mix of processing methods (wet and dry).

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Roughly 60% of the blend is a wet process coffee from Gera region of Western Ethiopia by way of the Telila washing station. It's made up of hundreds of small holders in the region, and on its own offered clean sweetness, with mild stone fruit hints. The other 40% is a more fruit-forward dry process lot from the 30 hectare farm of Aba Dega in Bashasha town, Goma region. Aba Dega focuses solely on dry process coffees, and we've been fortunate to buy from him the past 3 years since he first exported coffee under his own name. There's no way around decaffeination having some negative impact on cup quality, and we've found that adding the fruitier naturals to the equation helps lock in some of what we think of as Ethiopian origin characteristics. That's certainly the case here! And that's the beauty of using a gentle decaffeination process like the Swiss Water method, where much of the volatile compounds that affect flavor and aroma are preserved post-decaf.

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