Bookkisa - Ethiopia
This is our second year working with Ture Waji and the first time we've featured Bookkisa. Ture, "The Kind of Guji", often known for his incredible natural coffees has recently been producing some excellent washed coffees. This one is a testament to his great work, with sweetness like honey and a citric acidity like lime and peaches.
250G
- Variety: 74110, 74112
- Country: Ethiopia
- Region: Guji
- Process: Washed
- Altitude: 1730 MASL
- Harvest: December 2023/January 2024
- Producer: Ture Waji
- Washing Station: Weessi
In the cup
We get a clean cup with delicate florals and sweet honey. It has a citrus sweetness like peach and a acidity like lemon-lime. It has a clean finish and a light tea like body.
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About The Producer
Sookoo’s washing stations are located in the Guji zone of the Oromia region, Ethiopia. The coffee from this area is sometimes mistakenly called Sidamo Guji, while instead it should be called Guji, or West-Guji on its own. In this beautiful landscape of forest jungle at an elevation of 2,100-2,350 meters above sea level, you can hear the workers singing cultural Guji songs while moving coffee around. Ture Waji, famously known as ‘The King of Guji’, is the gentle ruler of Sookoo Coffee, located in the Woredas of Uraga and Shakisso. He has strong connections to the land, its community and farmers, as he grew up in region. After studying, he started as an export and farm manager at his cousin’s coffee farm and company Mormora, and at Guji Highlands Coffee. He was able to start Sookoo Coffee (previously Dambi Uddo), thanks to the trade and coffee liberalization in Ethiopia, building his first washing station and exporting his first coffee under his own brand in 2018.
Processing
Fully ripe cherry was pulped using a Penagos eco-pulper. The coffee was then fermented/soaked in water for 12 hours before being removed to drying tables.
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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