SUBTEXT Ethiopia - Chelbesa Danche (250g)

In January of this year, we had the opportunity to travel to Gedeb, Ethiopia where we spent a few days with SNAP coffee and visited a number of their stations in the region. Among those stations was Chelbesa Danche, located in the Chelbesa Kebele. About 800 producers deliver cherry—primarily Kurume and Wolisho varieties—to this station, where processing is overseen by Frew, the Special Prep Coordinator and Yirgacheffe Operations Manager. They produce a number of different processes at Danche, but this particular lot is an excellent Yellow Honey. For this process, the cherries were de-pulped and left to dry-ferment for 2 days before being moved to raised beds where they were regularaly turned over for two weeks to ensure even drying.