Ethiopia Kaffa-Michiti Cooperative - 5lb Bag

Farm Description:

Michiti is a cooperative in the far Western are of Ethiopia called Kaffa, where coffee is said to originate as an understory plant in the dense forests. Michiti has been a favorite coffee from this area, and has 260 coop members growing coffee on small farms at a range of 1700 to 1900 meters. In this area, the idea of a coffee farm might need to be defined more specifically; much coffee is simply planted in the forests, untended, then harvested when ripe. Other coffee is simply found growing wild and harvested. A few farms are more intentionally planted, pruned, and improved over time. The cooperative has received assistance in their business organization and accounting, agronomy and processing, as well as in marketing the coffee. The last two years they've paid record dividends to farmers after the harvest, based on the premium price we paid for their coffee. They deserve it!

Cupping Notes:

The dry fragrance has a unique stone fruit scent, with delicate sweetness, honey graham cracker and cinnamon. With a little more roast, there is a chocolate brownie note too, along with canned peach and spice accents. Adding the hot water, the aromatics are loaded with peach and ripe nectarine smells backed by hefty brown sugar sweetness, and ginger molasses cookie. Historically, Kaffa coffees were dry processed, and so much of the articulate and sweet fruit flavors were lost behind flavors of processing.

City+ roasts make for a very juicy brewed coffee, echoing much of the stone fruit aspects alluded to in the aroma, and more. Peach tea, orange marmalade, slab apricot, and mango chutney emerge in the cooling cup, faint cinnamon and clove spice notes accenting the finish. Body is extremely thick at this roast level.