Ethiopia - Yirgacheffe - Halo Beriti

Process: Washed
Variety: Heirloom Ethiopian Varieties
Elevation: 2100–2300 MASL
Region: Yirgacheffe
The Cup: Golden raisin, fresh nectarine, fresh apricot, and fresh peach flavors with juicy acidity and clean fruit-like sweetness.

Halo Beriti Washing Station was established in 2014 and serves 750 smallholder producers, who deliver their coffee in cherry form. This particular lot is part of a "special preparation" in which hand-sorting was done repeatedly throughout the receiving and drying process, ensuring that only perfect coffees made it into the bags.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.