Ayla Bombe - Ethiopia buckets
Caramel · peach · lemon
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Farm named
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What Café Pascal says about this coffee
Notes: Caramel, peach and lemon Origin: Sidamo Producer: 800 smallholders Altitude: 2000 masl Variety: JARC 74110, JARC 74158 Process: Fully Washed
Information:
Faysel Abdosh established Ayla washing station in 2018.
Ayla is Testi’s first station in Sidamo. About 800 farmers contribute cherry to the station. They cultivate coffee at high altitudes of 1,950 to 2,000 meters above sea level on small plots about 0.5 hectares on average. In addition to buying cherry, Testi Specialty Coffee also contributes to community wellbeing. In Sidamo, they have helped build schools for local children, supported a water project to make clean water accessible and have helped connect homes to the electricity grid.
Farmers selectively handpick ripe, red cherry and deliver it to Ayla station. Since farms are small, most labor is done by the family. At the station, cherry is visually inspected and any damaged or underripe cherry is removed. Cherry is pulped and fermented in a fermentation tank for 36 to 48 hours. Following fermentation, parchment is washed in clean water and laid to dry on raised beds. Parchment is raked frequently to ensure even drying.
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What the roaster says about where it came from
We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.
How it sits among coffee from Ethiopia
Café Pascal describe this coffee as fruity, caramel and sweet, citrus. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Ethiopia; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.
Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Ethiopia, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.
The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Ethiopia coffees
Where each fact came from
Altitude, lowest
“Altitude: 2000 masl Variety: JARC 74110, JARC 74158 Process: Fully Washed Information: Faysel Abdosh established Ayla washing station in 2018.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Flavour families
“Notes: Caramel, peach and lemon Origin: Sidamo Producer: 800 smallholders Altitude: 2000 masl Variety: JARC 74110, JARC 74158 Process: Fully Washed Information: Faysel Abdosh established Ayla washing station in 2018.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Processing
“Process: Fully Washed Information: Faysel Abdosh established Ayla washing station in 2018.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
Tasting notes
“Notes: Caramel, peach and lemon Origin: Sidamo Producer: 800 smallholders Altitude: 2000 masl Variety: JARC 74110, JARC 74158 Process: Fully Washed Information: Faysel Abdosh established Ayla washing station in 2018.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)
A further 1 fact on this page was read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for it.
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