Etiopía Halo Beriti
Washing Station
The Halo Beriti wash station was established in 2014 and serves 750 small producers, who deliver their coffee in the shape of a cherry. Natural batches dry on raised beds for 8 to 15 days when the weather is sunny or 15 to 20 days when it is cloudy.
Process Method
In these regions of southern Ethiopia, farmers selectively pick coffee, picking only ripe cherries. The pickers rotate among the trees every eight to ten days, choosing only those cherries that are at their peak of maturity. The coffee is pulped and washed by hand in cement channels at the community washing stations. After fermenting in water to loosen the mucilage, wooden paddles are used to thoroughly wash the coffee. Then it is placed on raised beds to dry in the sun.
Origin
When we enter the world of washed coffee in southern Ethiopia – the most famous names are Yirgacheffe and Sidama – we enter a special sensory world different from that to which most coffee drinkers are used to. These coffees, grown in large part from native Arabica varietals very rare in almost any other place in the world, present intense and often extravagant aromatic profiles: lemon, bergamot, flowers, cocoa and bright acid fruits.
Located in the south of Ethiopia, the Yirgacheffe region has a high quality coffee, also known as the “Champagne region of the coffee world”. It has perfect growing conditions for an excellent coffee: fair amount of rain and fertile soil that absorbs all the essential minerals. Locals rarely dare to use the main road, especially in the rainy season, because they will not be able to leave their misty valley due to the muddy slopes. It is as if beauty and danger are inseparable.
Yirgacheffe is both the name of a locality and the denomination of a quality of coffee.
The endemic varieties are a wild and mysterious mixture of native varieties of wild flowers, and each zone or village has its own flavour profile, shaped for many years according to the growing conditions such as soil, elevation and climate. These profiles form the classification system for Ethiopian coffees, for example, Sidamo, Harrar, Limu, Djimmah, etc. It is widely argued that a Yirgacheffe grade can offer one of the most distinctive flavour profiles in the world, with powerful floral aroma and an intense citrus flavor.
The Gedeo area is named after the Gedeo people, whose lands are located in this territory. It extends to the south of Sidama as a narrow strip of land along the eastern slope of the Ethiopian highlands, in the Oromia region.
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