SUNRISE - Light roast tasting notes: Peach, stone fruits, gardenia floral, rue herbal accent

SUNRISE is a Grade 1 Ethiopia naturally grown coffee from the region of Yirga Cheffe Halo Beriti. 

In the brew, the combination of fruit and florals give off ripe fruit characteristics, like white peach, and nectarine, juicy sweetness that adds to an overall fruited acidity. The profile unfolds to hints of white grape juice, apricot tea, complex cane sugar sweetness, and the slight bittering aspect of a peach pit in the finish. 'Floral' is right at the top of our list of aromatic descriptors, with sweet gardenias, as well as elements of floral fruits, like fresh mango.

The Halo Beriti washing station is located near Gedeb town, within Ethiopia's southern Gedeo Zone, a few kilometer south of Yirga Cheffe. The collection sites draw from farms in Halo Beriti and neighboring villages as well. Most of the farms in this area are very small, with far less than 1 hectare of land, and altitude at the farms spans from 1900 to 2200 meters above sea level. It's very cold in this area and they employ a long fermentation to break down the fruit mucilage stuck to the green coffee seeds. After the outer cherry is removed, the coffee is fermented with water for up to 36 hours, then soaked for another 24 hours in clean spring water, and sent to the raised drying beds. That long fermentation may have something to do with the fruit flavors found in this washed coffee, but does little to dampen the floral-forward aromatics!

• Wet Process (Washed).
• Raised Bed Sun-Dried.
• Heirloom Cultivars
• Grade 1
  

The brilliance and vitality of this perfectly roasted cup causes a chaotic world to quickly fade away.

One 12 oz bag = about 25-30 8 oz cups of coffee.

Brewing recommendations:

Use clean, chemical-free water with some mineral content. Freshly grind your coffee beans to match your brewing method using a burr grinder. Use boiling hot water.

Keep brewing equipment clean. Store coffee beans in an airtight container away from light, heat, and moisture.

The tasting notes are the natural expressions of the plant with proper roasting - no flavor is added.