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This enchanting Ethiopia Guji OCFCU Natural Process Organic coffee is produced by members of The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU), a farmer-owned cooperative with members from across the Oromia Regional State, which accounts for 65 percent of the country’s total coffee-growing land. The group has an excellent reputation for supporting its members and their communities by having women in prominent positions throughout the organization, constructing schools, health centers and clean water supply stations and offering financial services to it’s members.
Ethiopia’s Guji zone in many ways feels like the next generation of Ethiopian coffee. We see the marketplace itself evolving constantly in this country--the very exciting new wave of direct exports for one, the rise of private washing stations and boutique domestic buyers for another, and the foundation of modernized, large estates with quality and social justice equally at the forefront, setting management examples for producers worldwide. Guji itself however, as a place, a people, and a coffee, is like a newly emerged origin altogether. The forest-heavy zone with a conservationist spirit and uniquely candy-like coffees is getting its break now, and the world is better for it.
For natural process coffee, coffee cherry is picked and laid out to dry in the sun with the skin still intact. Because the beans dry inside the fruit, they absorb flavors from the pulp and natural sugars as they develop. This approach differs significantly from the more commonly utilized washed process, where the fruit is mechanically removed using depulping machines and the beans are rinsed in water to eliminate any remaining pulp before drying.
Roast: light
Tasting Notes: jasmine, peach, almond
This enchanting Ethiopia Guji OCFCU Natural Process Organic coffee is produced by members of The Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union (OCFCU), a farmer-owned cooperative with members from across the Oromia Regional State, which accounts for 65 percent of the country’s total coffee-growing land. The group has an excellent reputation for supporting its members and their communities by having women in prominent positions throughout the organization, constructing schools, health centers and clean water supply stations and offering financial services to it’s members.
Ethiopia’s Guji zone in many ways feels like the next generation of Ethiopian coffee. We see the marketplace itself evolving constantly in this country--the very exciting new wave of direct exports for one, the rise of private washing stations and boutique domestic buyers for another, and the foundation of modernized, large estates with quality and social justice equally at the forefront, setting management examples for producers worldwide. Guji itself however, as a place, a people, and a coffee, is like a newly emerged origin altogether. The forest-heavy zone with a conservationist spirit and uniquely candy-like coffees is getting its break now, and the world is better for it.
For natural process coffee, coffee cherry is picked and laid out to dry in the sun with the skin still intact. Because the beans dry inside the fruit, they absorb flavors from the pulp and natural sugars as they develop. This approach differs significantly from the more commonly utilized washed process, where the fruit is mechanically removed using depulping machines and the beans are rinsed in water to eliminate any remaining pulp before drying.
Roast: light
Tasting Notes: jasmine, peach, almond
