Origin: Keramo, Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia

Farms: 1,500 small producers

Washing Station: Keramo Adara Washing Station

Process: Washed with wet fermentation

Varieties: primarily JARC 74112 + local heirloom Ethiopian Landraces

Elevation: 2300+ masl

Importer & Exporter: The Coffee Quest & Daye Bensa Coffee

Roast: Light

Notes: Peach Sweet Tea, Floral, Stewed Berries, Lemon

Transparency: 
price paid to farmers 134 birr/kg
our price before shipping $6.81usd/lb

This year washing stations paid record high prices to farmers, with demand ever increasing. This crop was also affected by American tariffs, effectively raising our cost from $6.25/lb to $6.81usd/lb, for nothing but an extra tax to their government, yay.

Keramo Adara Station, Ethiopia

From Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, we are lucky to have this stunning lot from the Cup of Excellence winning Keramo Adara Washing Station!

High in the cloudy forests on the Bombe mountains, thousands of smallholders are growing coffee under the generous canopy. Beneath the shade coffee flourishes and thrives; the warm days with diffused sun and the cool nights are the perfect conditions for coffee to grow and slowly mature in flavour.

1500 smallholders take their coffee cherries down to the Keramo Adara Washing Station, a mixture of heritage Ethiopian Landraces and 74112 from the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre. At the washing station it is wet fermented for 36 to 72hrs and dried on raised beds for 12-15 days. 

This coffee will make a bright sweet filter, or a nice poppy fruit forward espresso! We recommend standard 16-17:1 parameters for filter, and a 1:2.1 for a standard espresso, coarsen up your grind a bit as coffees from Ethiopia are dense and tend to brew slower than other coffees!