Ethiopia Yirgacheffe – Banko Gotiti Grade 1 – Single Origin Filter Roast

ETHIOPIA YIRGACHEFFE – BANKO GOTITI GRADE 1   

Region: Yirgacheffe
Body: Full
Acidity:  High
Process: Natural
Farm:  Banko Gotiti

Tasting Notes: Dark chocolate, caramel, and cooked red grape with mild dried berry flavours.  Sugary sweetness and balanced acidity.

Background:  Banko Gotiti is a village in the Gedeb district of Ethiopia’s Gedeo Zone, where Yirgacheffe is located.  The Banko Gotiti cooperative was founded in 2012, separately from the Worka cooperative, which is a larger organization.  Banko Gotiti has about 300 members, who grow a mix of heirloom Ethiopian varieties of coffee.  Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops.  The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt.   Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.  The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season.  Typically, farmers in this region don’t have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee.

N.B. Single Origin Filter Roasts are lightly roasted specifically and only for specialty apparatus such as Pour Over, Chemex, AeroPress, Batch Brew, Toddy, and all other specialty brew methods.