Ethiopia - Chelbesa 250g

Elderflower · Tangerine · Silky

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What Koppi says about this coffee

Flavour notes: Elderflower, Tangerine, Silky

Producers: 450 smallholder member farmers

Origin: Gedeb, Yirgacheffe – Ethiopia

Altitude: 1900–2100 masl

Cultivars: Ethiopian landrace

Process: 48-72h wet fermentation, washed and dried on raised beds

Chelbesa is located in the Gedeb District which is one of the finest coffee producing areas in Ethiopia. It is known for its dense semi forest vegetation with lots of natural and planted shade trees. The area is a great example of agro-ecology perfectly suitable for coffee.

The station receives coffee cherries from around 450 farmers in the area. In 2019 the station was renovated and the fermentation tanks replaced to ceramic ones that both bring clarity to the coffee but also speed up the fermentation process by retaining the heat inside the tank.

The farmers bring their coffee cherries to the washing station before being sorted and processed. The ones living the furthest away can walk up to 2 hours to deliver their coffees.

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Ethiopia

Region

Yirgacheffe, Gedeb

Process

washed

Altitude

1900 to 2100 m

Not stated

farm or estate, producer, variety, 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.

Koppi describe this coffee as citrus, floral. 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

“Altitude: 1900–2100 masl Cultivars: Ethiopian landrace Process: 48-72h wet fermentation, washed and dried on raised beds Chelbesa is located in the Gedeb District which is one of the finest coffee producing areas in Ethiopia.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

Flavour families

“Flavour notes: Elderflower, Tangerine, Silky Producers: 450 smallholder member farmers Origin: Gedeb, Yirgacheffe – Ethiopia Altitude: 1900–2100 masl Cultivars: Ethiopian landrace Process: 48-72h wet fermentation, washed and dried on raised beds Chelbesa is located in the Gedeb District which is one of the finest coffee producing areas in Ethiopia.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Origin: Gedeb, Yirgacheffe – Ethiopia Altitude: 1900–2100 masl Cultivars: Ethiopian landrace Process: 48-72h wet fermentation, washed and dried on raised beds Chelbesa is located in the Gedeb District which is one of the finest coffee producing areas in Ethiopia.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

Processing

“Process: 48-72h wet fermentation, washed and dried on raised beds Chelbesa is located in the Gedeb District which is one of the finest coffee producing areas in Ethiopia.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

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.