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    Gerba Hechere

    Gerba Hechere

    $18.00 USD
    $18.00 USD
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    Origin: Ethiopia

    Tasting Notes: Floral, Sweet, and Subtle Fruits

    Sourcing Partner: Coffee Shrub

    Information from Coffee Shrub

    Hechere is the name of the buying site and farm area this coffee is from. It's located in the Oda Muda Kebele, not far from Gerba town in Guji, and the farms span an altitude range of 2,200 to 2,350 meters above sea level. This lot was processed at a mill in Gerba dogo area, run by Gemechu Shonora, along with brothers Shebura, Morkata and Adugna. Their father worked for the local union many years ago as a coffee collector, going out into the surrounding towns buying coffee cherries from farmers. They produce both wet and dry process coffee from many of the surrounding areas, separating by growing region, and Kebele (equivalent of a small town).  The coffee is pulped of its fruit with a disc machine that uses friction to remove the fruit, then fermented overnight in cement tanks. Fermentation is mostly a means to an end, that being to break down and remove the fruit mucilage that's stuck to the seed. But it also tends to yield a much more refined cup profile than dry process, often floral and bright in the case of coffees from Guji. The wet coffee is laid to dry on raised beds in full sun here, and it's not uncommon to see coffee dry in less than a week. We found the cup expressed aromatic florals and syrupy sweetness.

    Light roasts of this wet process coffee brew a clean, floral profile that's syrupy sweet, accented by hints of fruit and tea that bring a mouth refreshing quality to the acidic impression. The ground coffee releases refined sweetness in the fragrance, like simple syrup made with sugar in the raw, with a very light floral note, and a hint of lemon peel. The wet aroma brings the floral aspects closer to the surface, perfumed jasmine, orange blossoms, sweet and delicate, along with lively citrus hints. Light City roasts of Hechere make fantastic pour-over brews, where fragrant floral notes and delicate tea-like flavors come together with high toned accents, and sweetness that carries the cup. There's a light honey flavor in the brew that hooks you right up front, and shifts to something more like burnt sugars in the aftertaste. Aromatic top notes are present from start to finish too, initially centered around floral hints of jasmine and rose, then shifting to citrusy lemon verbena, and finally something like botanical tea bitters in the aftertaste. I picked up on fruited suggestions of pear and white peach as the coffee cooled, along with a bubblegum note.

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