Mullugeta Muntasha - Ethiopia (Extra-Light)
Our first year working with Mullugeta, a cup of excellence winner of Ethiopia in 2022. This is an intensely floral and sweet coffee that in memorable and distinct. This is an Extra-Light variant of Mullugeta that is recommended to experienced brewers as it requires forty five days of rest after the roast for best results. Extra-Light profiles sacrifice sweetness and initial intensity for clarity.
250G
- Variety: Jarc 74158
- Country: Ethiopia
- Region: Sidama, Arbegona
- Process: Washed
- Altitude: 2150 MASL
- Harvest: 2024
- Producer: Mullugeta Muntasha
- Roast Level: Extra-Light
In the cup
We get an intensely floral cup that reminds us of white tea and jasmine. This coffee has a bright citric acidity of tangerine and lime with a light body and a long floral finish.
Funky
Process
About The Producer
In 2021 Mullugeta returned to Bursa and began processing coffee at his own drying station, called Dawencho, where he won 2nd place in the Cup of Excellence for the Dawencho farmer group coffee and 6th place under his own name, Mullugeta Muntasha. In 2022, four of the top 10 CoE winners were Mullugeta’s lots, including that of Legesse Botola—the top winner and Mullugeta’s brother-in law—who processed coffee at Mullugeta’s washing station located next to his farm.
Processing
Cherry is purchased from local outgrows, sorted, flowed, pulped and fermented for 36-40 hours under water. The coffee is than washed and sorted for density and dried on traditional raised beds.
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.
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