Ethiopia Guji | Suke Quto | Honey Process - Light Roast

Traditionally, coffee in Ethiopia is processed either fully washed (pulped, wet fermented, washed, then dried) or full natural (the whole cherry sun-dried). This coffee, however, is honey processed, essentially a hybrid method where the cherry is pulped (the skin and part of the fruit is removed), leaving a sticky layer of fruit/mucilage left on the parchment then natural-dried on raised canopied screens. Skipping the wet-fermentation and washing stages tempers acidity, while changing the flavor profile to make for a silkier, jammier cup.

At over 6,000 feet (1800 meters +), following strict quality standards, the farm is part of a program established by our importing partner (and enabled ultimately by you) that pays for its organic certification and additional price premiums when quality standards are met.

This is our kind of story: a heroic tale of a coffee farmer, Tesfaye, with a dream to grow specialty coffee under the shade of the forest canopy in and around his small 5 hectare farm, ultimately finding success in high-quality sustainable coffee. Some time after Tesfaye founded Suke Quto in 2005, a large amount of the surrounding forest was consumed by a fire, leaving his farm and neighboring land threatened by soil erosion and eventual desertification. This was exacerbated by many of his neighbors choosing to plant corn and teff in the fields destroyed by the fire. Tesfaye decided that the only way out of this environmental predicament was to turn his neighbors into ecologically friendly coffee farmers by giving them, in addition to his expertise, shade and coffee tree seedlings. Today, in addition to his now nearly 500 hectare strong farm, he has over 150 neighbors delivering prime organic coffee cherry to his mill for processing.

• 100% Shade-Grown Arabica Bean Coffee
• Certified Organic
• Kosher