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Ethiopia - Halo Beriti - Natural (92.8 CUP SCORE!)
Ethiopia - Halo Beriti - Natural (92.8 CUP SCORE!)
Flavors: Dark caramelized sugars, well defined citrus, chocolate and mango.
The cup is has a nice complex profile, best described as caramelized sugars meets with chocolate. It has well-defined acidity, bright, and even a bit lemon rind.
Acidity is often compromised in dry process, but definitely not the case here! The aroma has some very nice fruit notes, like mango & ripe orange. The finish pulls at the chocolatey flavors underneath, leaving with something like creamy chocolate mousse with a lemon rind zest on top
Process: Dry Process (Natural)
Roast: Medium Lite
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The Deet's
The Deet's
Varietal: Heirloom
Certs: Farm Gate
MASL: 2200
Process: Dry - Raised sun beds, Very much a fruited dry process, this lot showed impressive core sweetness and roast tones.
Adding hot water to the grounds awakened a more of a cooked fruit compound within layers of dark sugar sweetness, like fruit cooked pie filling with cinnamon, and spiced cider.
This is a dry process coffee, meaning the whole cherries are laid to dry with the seeds/beans still intact. It can take upwards of 4 weeks to dry a natural in this cold climate, and the resulting cup carries a nice fruit-forward appeal, and fairly balanced bittersweetness too.
Producer
Producer
The Halo Beriti washing station is located near Gedeb town, within Ethiopia's southern Gedeo Zone, a few kilometer south of Yirga Cheffe.
The collection sites draw from farms in Halo Beriti and neighboring villages as well. Most of the farms in this area are very small, with far less than 1 hectare of land, and altitude at the farms spans from 1900 to 2200 meters above sea level. It's very cold in this area, and the seeds can be on the smaller side and quite dense (though not so small they slip through the grid drum of a Behmor).
This lot of Halo Beriti is from a grower we've previously bought coffee through, but from Western regions. This year he offered some exceptional coffees from the South, including this one.
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