Ethiopia

EA Decaf - Syoum Family - Guji Natural

crisp orange

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What Paso Paso says about this coffee

A Unique and Vibrant Decaf from Ethiopia Guji

We set out to create a decaffeinated coffee that we genuinely love in every single aspect, offering all of the classic Paso Paso flavor promises—just completely without the caffeine. For this special project, we selected our best-selling Ethiopia Guji Natural from the Syoum Family and imported an additional lot from Hester and Dawit to be naturally decaffeinated in Bremen.

High-Altitude Heirloom Varieties: Grown in Guji Meguda's lush, volcanic soil at an altitude of 1,998 – 2,200 meters, featuring the exquisite Enat Buna & 74412 local varieties.

Natural Processing Excellence: Handpicked red cherries are meticulously sun-dried on raised wooden beds for 3.5 weeks, enhancing the cup's innate fruit complexity and cane sugar sweetness.

Gentle Sugar Cane Decaffeination: The Ethyl Acetate (EA) process uses a naturally occurring compound found in fruit to selectively isolate and strip caffeine molecules while completely preserving the bean's original flavor oils.

The Story of Our Ethiopian Decaf

By combining artisanal Ethiopian sorting methods with the gentle chemistry of the natural EA decaf process, we managed to retain the true, vibran…

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Ethiopia

Region

Guji

Farm or estate

Bette Buna

Process

natural

Variety

Grown in Guji Meguda's lush, 998, 200 meters, featuring the exquisite Enat Buna

Altitude

1998 to 2200 m

Not stated

producer, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

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

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Ethiopia: 927 of 2,375 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Paso Paso describe this coffee as 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, highest

“High-Altitude Heirloom Varieties: Grown in Guji Meguda's lush, volcanic soil at an altitude of 1,998 – 2,200 meters, featuring the exquisite Enat Buna & 74412 local varieties.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

Variety

…varieties: Grown in Guji Meguda's lush, volcanic soil at an altitude of 1,998 – 2,200 meters, featuring the exquisite Enat Buna & 74412 local varieties. part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Decaffeination method

“Gentle Sugar Cane Decaffeination: The Ethyl Acetate (EA) process uses a naturally occurring compound found in fruit to selectively isolate and strip caffeine molecules while completely preserving the bean's original flavor oils.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Decaffeinated

“A Unique and Vibrant Decaf from Ethiopia Guji We set out to create a decaffeinated coffee that we genuinely love in every single aspect, offering all of the classic Paso Paso flavor promises—just completely without the caffeine.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Farm

“Ethical & Sustainable Ecosystem Production at the Bette Buna farm focuses heavily on holistic community infrastructure.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“This lot delivers an incredibly creamy profile highlighted by notes of warm cane sugar and crisp orange, turning the page on the idea that decaf has to taste ordinary.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

Region

Roast level

…➔ Roast Profile: Medium Roast 14 Minutes to 205.6°C (1m 40s Development) ➔ Filter Parameters: Brew with a 1:15 ratio for a balanced cup highlighting floral notes and sweetness. part of a longer passage 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.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.