Echemo Espresso - Certified Organic

Echemo Espresso - Certified Organic

A refreshing and delicate coffee with flavours reminiscent of stone fruit, flowers and baking spice.

250g whole coffee beans

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About this coffee

Cultivar: Ethiopian heirloom from Coche forest

Flavour notes: Floral, white tea & stone fruits

Producer: Khalid Shifa
Country: Ethiopia
Region: Goma, Jimma
Process: Washed
Harvest date: December 2024

More about the cultivar

Khalid is mainly growing old cultivars that was planted by his grandfather many years ago. When establishing the farm, Khalid’s grandfather selected seeds from wild coffee trees from the the nearby Coche forest and the trees he planted are still producing well today.

How the coffee was produced

Picking and sorting

  • The coffee cherries are selectively hand picked by hired workers from the local community and sorted before they rest over night in the cherry receiving tank.


Depupling, fermenting & washing

  • The cherries are de-pulped in the next morning.  Once de-pulped, the parchment coffee, with it’s mucilage still on, is wet fermented in clean water for about 24 hours. After fermentation the coffee is graded and washed in a washing channel in order to remove the remaining mucilage and grade out the light coffee beans.


Drying

  • The coffees are dried on elevated drying tables covered with shade nets where defect parchment coffee gets sorted out by hand. Drying the coffee takes about 12 - 14 days. During daytime the coffees are raked to ensure even drying.  The drying process is finished when the moisture content in the coffee beans is between 9- 11,5%.


Storage, logistics and milling

  • After drying, the coffees are stored in air tight grain pro bags. Each daily picking is stored in separate bags until its final moisture and quality is checked and verified.  Lots with acceptable moisture content and quality are then delivered to the dry mill in Addis Ababa where the coffee gets cleaned and sorted before packaging for export. The coffee is vacuum packed in sealed plastic bags before it is exported.

Shipping

For our Norwegian customers, we offer two shipping options:

  1. Pakke i Postkassen - With Pakke i Postkassen, tracking is provided, and delivery is estimated within 2-3 business days.
  2. Pakke til hentested - The parcel can be collected from a Post in Store, Post Office, parcel locker, or parcel box. This option includes tracking, with delivery expected within 1-5 business days.

For all international orders, we ship via DHL - Worldwide Express. This shipping method includes tracking, and all customs duties and taxes are covered in the shipping price, ensuring there are no unexpected charges for your order or its importation into the final destination. The estimated delivery time with DHL is 1-5 business days. For more information about shipping, please visit our FAQ page here. If you have further questions, please contact us here.

How to brew

Espresso


We strongly recommend using VST filter baskets. Both the 18g, 20g and the 22g basket is great for our coffee. The VST filters makes it a lot easier to extract the espresso properly which gives a lot more sweetness in the cup. They are also more or less identical to each other which makes it easy to be more consistent when brewing on several groups at the same time. You can buy the filters on our webshop, just make sure they fit your machine (ours fits all La Marzocco machines and machines with 58mm filter baskets). With the VST 18g filter basket, we recommend the following brewing parameters: 18-19g freshly-ground coffee, 25-35s brewing time, 35-38g of final brew liquid in the cup, 93°C-94°C brew water temperature.

Tim's notes

We have been buying coffees from Khalid for many years now but it was not until my visit to his farm in November 2023 when I was able to make an impact on the quality of his coffees. During that visit I was able go through his production steps to see if we could agree upon a protocol for him to follow in order to try to elevate the quality of his coffees. As usual there were many small details that could be improved, some with small and others with major impact on the final quality. A few of the major ones included separation of every daily picking, keeping each daily lot stored in air tight grain pro bags after drying. Drying the coffees under shade nets, keeping better control of the fermentation and slightly changing the process were also part of what we changed and improved. This meant that I was able to evaluate several samples, each representing a daily picking, instead of just 2-3 samples like previous years where the coffees had been bulked together.

By doing this we were able to remove the lower qualities from the higher quality lots and in combination with better processing and drying practices the coffees really cleaned up and became more expressive. We would of course not be able to change all this in such short time had it not been for the wonderful help and follow up done by Fantanesh Keleme and the whole team at Belco in Ethiopia, who made sure Khalid understood and followed the protocols for all the coffees he produced for us.

We also milled the coffees in a smaller dry-mill this year where we were able to also vacuum pack the coffees before export. This helps preserve the coffees flavour and freshness for a much longer time.

Ethiopia

Echemo

Khalid Shifa is the owner of Echemo. He is 3rd generation coffee farmer and inherited the 35 hectare farm from his father. Echemo is situated near the town of Agaro, in Goma in the south west part of Ethiopia.

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