SAMII CHELBESA #8, ETHIOPIA, WASHED

Name: SAMII CHELBESA #8, ETHIOPIA, WASHED
Brand: Man versus Machine
Availability: InStock

floral · citrus

Floral CitrusFor espressoFor filter

65,90 €/kg

65,90 € for 1 kg, their cheapest per kilo · about 1,19 € for an 18 g espresso dose

Price observed 5 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

Delivery cost not stated by the roaster

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Bag	Price	Per kilo
250 g	18,90 €	75,60 €/kg
1 kg	65,90 €	65,90 €/kg

The 1 kg bag works out 13% cheaper per kilo than the 250 g.

What Man versus Machine says about this coffee

Sourced from the renowned Chelbesa Washing Station in Ethiopia’s Gedeb district of Yirgacheffe, this coffee is produced at elevations of 1,925–2,110 meters above sea level by approximately 615 smallholder farmers cultivating plots of just 0.5–2 hectares.

Situated at 2,100 meters and surrounded by rich red soils, semi-forest vegetation, and traditional garden coffee farms, the station processes cherries from local cultivars Welisho and Dega. Farmers carefully harvest only fully ripe cherries, delivering them to the station within 40 minutes of picking to preserve quality and freshness.

The coffee undergoes meticulous washed processing, including density grading, 72 hours of fermentation, channel washing, clean-water soaking, and slow drying on raised beds for up to 10 days before final hand-sorting.

Managed by Girum Assefa and operated by SNAP Coffee, Chelbesa has earned a reputation for exceptional consistency in the cup, producing coffees with a vibrant floral character, bright citrus notes, and the elegant complexity that has made the region famous.

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Ethiopia

Region

Yirgacheffe, Gedeb

Process

washed

Altitude

1925 to 2110 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.

Man versus Machine 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

What Man versus Machine says about itself

Direct trade

“From our roastery in Munich, we deliver 100% Specialty Grade Coffee and Direct Trade Matcha with absolute reliability and dedicated partner support.” their page (opens in a new tab)

Organic

“Are your coffees certified organic?” their page (opens in a new tab)

These are claims the roaster makes about its business, not about this coffee, and we have not checked them against any register.

Where each fact came from

Altitude, highest

“Sourced from the renowned Chelbesa Washing Station in Ethiopia’s Gedeb district of Yirgacheffe, this coffee is produced at elevations of 1,925–2,110 meters above sea level by approximately 615 smallholder farmers cultivating plots of just 0.5–2 hectares.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

Flavour families

Region

Roasted for

BIALETTI blueberry dega ESPRESSO ETHIOPIA FILTER COFFEE FLORAL MOKKAPOT peach Seasonal SINGLE ORIGIN smallholder farms Subscription washed wolisho… part of a longer passage the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

A further 4 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.

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.