Decaf

Ethiopia Degfa decaf

Israel Degfa and his family own a few private coffee farms as well as an export company called Kerchanshe, working directly with Kamba Coffee importers who sourced this lot for us. Kerchanshe owns a variety of washing stations and private farms across several coffee producing regions in Ethiopia and Israel is involved across the full supply chain so part of the profit is reinvested into Kerchanshe and the community around it, in this case 884 smallholders contributing to this crop.

The infamous Yirgacheffe region, widely considered the birthplace of coffee, delivers an amazing variety of crops and flavours which makes it an exciting origin for any coffee lover. Slowly it's opened to the decaf market, which was usually dominated by coffee from Brazil, Colombia and Mexico. In this case the Bonde Kochere washing station employs around 375 workers during harvest season and uses 300 raised beds to dry the coffee from it's farmers (who are all registered as part of the Kerchanshe support network setup by Israel Degfa, providing healthcare, education and agricultural support to its members). The decaffeination process happens through steaming green coffee, then soaking it in water and circulating activated carbon which filters caffeine out. Green coffee is then dried and polished, then packed. It's still a very unusual thing to see an Ethiopian decaf but we think this one could as well be mistaken for a medium roasted "normal" Ethiopian coffee, especially in espresso. Expect a very silky body and notes of caramel, black tea, milk chocolate.

ORIGIN - Ethiopia

PRODUCER - Israel Degfa

LOCATION - Yirgacheffe

PROCESSING MILL - Bonde Kochere

PROCESS - Washed, water decaf

PLANT SPECIES - Arabica

PLANT VARIETY - Heirloom

ELEVATION - 1800-2100masl

HARVEST - 2023