Tariku Kare - Ethiopia
Our first year working with this lot from Tariku Kare, and our last Ethiopia coffee of the season, in the cup we get a vibrant and juicy washed Ethiopia profile of key lime, peach tea, and honeydew.
250G
- Variety: 74158
- Country: Ethiopia
- Region: Guji
- Process: Washed
- Altitude: 2070 MASL
- Harvest: 2024
- Producer: Tariku Kare
- Roast Level: Light
In the cup
We taste a juicy Ethiopia profile of peach tea with a key lime like acidity and classic Ethiopia florals with a honeydew sweet finish.
Funky
Process
About The Producer
The story of the washing station's owner, Tariku Kare, is one of the success that comes when hard work and perseverance collide with opportunity. Tariku was born in Bombe and, at 15 years old, began working as a cherry sorter for a local cooperative. He worked his way—first receiving a promotion to wash coffee in the channels, and then when a man from Awassa opened a washing station in Nansebo, he was tapped to manage. The market disruptions led that owner to bankruptcy so Tariku and 17 other workers at the washing station formed a company, opened a new washing—which Tariku managed. Later, he opened a new washing station by himself—this one, in Arsi—to supply coffee to the international market. Once that mill in Nansebo was stabilized and had enough producers contributing cherry, he returned to his hometown of Bombe and built a washing station there. At his sites, Tariku pays a premium over local prices for ripe red cherry and works hard to incentivize farmers to deliver cherry to his washing stations each year.
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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