Strawberry Shortcake
This is our third year working with Basha Bekele and our second time featuring one of his anaerobic natural lots. This coffee is creamy and sweet, reminding us of strawberry shortcake and fresh berries.
200g
Strawberry Shortcake
September Coffee Roastery
119 Iber Road
Unit 9
Ottawa ON K2S 1E7
Canada
- Variety: JARC 74158
- Country: Ethiopia
- Region: Bombe, Bensa, Sidama
- Process: Anaerobic Natural
- Altitude: 2231 MASL
- Producer: Basha Bekele
- Washing Station: Kokose
- Roast Level: Light
In the cup
We taste strawberry shortcake, icing sugar, juicy berries, and sweet papaya. This coffee has a creamy body and a lingering, sweet finish.
Funky
Experimental
About The Producer
Before the government made it possible for smallholders to obtain export licenses, both Basha and his father sold their cherry to the cooperative. Basha now has his own export license and grows coffee (primarily 74158, known locally as “Walega”) in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating collection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2300 MASL. Basha has recently received a de-pulper due to the help of Crop to Cup, allowing him to experiment with unique new coffee processes like this one.
Variety
The Jimma Agricultural Research Centre (JARC), one of Ethiopia’s federal agricultural research centers, approved the release of 74158 in 1979. The variety originally came out of the Metu Bishari Selections taken from mother plants from the Metu woreda (district) of the Illuababora zone. 74158 was selected and propagated for its high yield potential and resistance to coffee berry disease.
Transparency
Imported
We Paid
Roasted Costs