Habtamu Fekadu Aga - Ethiopia
Our first year working with this Habtamu lot, this is a beautiful lot that defines our love for Ethiopia. This coffee is sweet like Stonefruits, juicy like Peaches and floral like Earl Grey.
250G
- Variety: 74110, 74112
- Country: Ethiopia
- Region: Sidama
- Process: Washed
- Altitude: 2000 MASL
- Harvest: 2023/2024
- Producer: Aaga Dinsa
- Roast Level: Light
In the cup
We get juicy peach and stone fruit sweetness. This coffee has delicate earl grey florals and juicy lemon acidity. It has a light body and a sparkling medium finish.
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Process
About The Producer
Habtamu Fekadu Aga was founded in 2015 by Aaga Dinsa, the grandson of a coffee farmer in Kuri kebele. The farm Aaga Dinsa inherited from his grandfather continues to serve as the center of the export operation with 105 hectares of planting in Kuri kebele and 837 hectares total including the farms of the 144 registered outgrowers that contribute cherry to company washing stations in Wolega, Guji and Jimma. The company holds organic certification as well as Fair for Life certification. Through Fair for Life, Habtamu Fekadu contributes $0.12 per pound of exports for the as well as 5% of company profits to a development fund reinvested in the community through food, clothing, schooling, roads, and facilities and equipment for healthcare. Until liberalization of the Ethiopian export system in 2017, Habtamu Fekadu sold coffee through ECX but now engages in direct export.
Processing
Cherry is purchased from local collection center and registered outgrowers and trucked to the washing station, where it is pulped and undergo a submerged fermentation spanning 48-72 hours depending on the temperature, followed by a second 12-hour submerged fermentation after washing. Drying takes 10-12 days on raised beds.
Variety
74110 is a locally selected subvariety of Ethiopian Heirloom, developed in the 70s at the Jimma Agricultural Research Center (JARC) for resistance to the coffee berry disease. The prefix ‘74’ indicates that the selection and cataloguing occurred in 1974. The subvariety 74110 was selected from an original “mother tree” in the Bishari village in the Oromia region. The trees are short and compact, with small leaves and cherries. 74112 is a varietal from the Metu Bishari selections made in the forests of the Illubabor Zone in western Ethiopia in 1974. The Jimma Agricultural Research Center (JARC) selected it (alongside a few others)for its resistance to coffee berry disease.
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