Finca el Suelo – Ethiopian Landrace – 100g bag

This coffee comes from our Ethiopian landrace cultivars that I planted in March 2019 after getting seeds from my friend Gilberto Baraona's cultivar garden on his farm Los Pirineos in El Salvador. We harvested around 50+ kilos of this coffee during the main harvest from May to August 2024 but after tasting each individual picking and sorting, we ended up with only 28 kilos of green coffee of good quality.

This is the  fourth harvest from these Ethiopian coffee trees from our farm, but since we only have 110 trees that are in production the volumes are quite small. That also means that every picking yields small quantities and we therefore process the coffee with a manual de-pulping machine and ferment and wash the coffee by hand in small buckets.  Since we are able to pay more attention to detail in the process,  we are able to get a really clean and well sorted coffee which is reflected in the taste with a good amount of sweetness and a clean and elegant cup.

During the main harvest from May throughout August in 2024 we harvested many small lots from these trees. Each lot was stored in separate air tight bags and thoroughly evaluated and tasted after the harvest. All the best lots were then mixed together and became one lot of 28kilos of green coffee. The rejected lots with inferior quality was not exported.

Although this coffee is more subtle than a washed Ethiopian coffee, you can still expect flavours that are typical for Ethiopian coffees with notes of citrus, honey,  coffee flowers and stone fruits.

We will be roasting this coffee as one batch on our Loring roaster based on our recipe from last year, but will try to tweak the roast profile to make sure it is tasting as clean and vibrant as possible.