GUJI FLIP FLOPS - Ethiopia

Ethiopia, Guji
Varietal : 14112, Enat Buna
Process: Natural
Altitude: 2,100 masl

It is rare to be able to name the varietals in an Ethiopian lot. Traditionally coffee cherries from hundreds of smallholder farmers are sold to washing stations with little information about the coffee genetics available. These cherries are then sorted by size and quality and sold as regional lots. This coffee, however, is a single farm lot from Bette Buna, owned by Dawit Syoum and his wife Hester. The couple took over Dawit’s grandfather’s farm in 2020. The 220-hectare farm is divided into semi-forest and wild forest plots with coffee trees integrated throughout. Between seasonal and full time staff there are 850 workers employed at Bette Buna. This coffee underwent Natural processing. Ripe coffee cherries were hand-picked from the farm’s semi-forest plots before being placed onto raised drying beds. The cherries were dried for 3–5 weeks, spending half of the time in full sun exposure and half of the time shaded. After the coffee reached its ideal humidity the dried cherries were rested in sealed GrainPro bags before finally being milled, sorted, and packaged for export at Bette Buna’s dry mill near Addis Ababa.