ETHIOPIA - MUSTEFA ABAKENO

Another one of our coffees returning from seasons past. We really like to see how coffees have improved and developed over the seasons, and we’re warmly welcoming back this natural from Mustefa Abakeno in the Jimma region of Western Ethiopia. 

FLAVOUR PROFILE - Peach, mango and apple with a sweet brown sugar body and velvet milk chocolate
VARIETAL  - 74110, 74112 & Heirloom
LOCATION -  Agaro, Jimma, Western Ethiopia
HOW WE'RE BREWING IT - Aeropress 

POSTAGE 

Currently, we roast every Monday and carry out our quality control, analysis and packaging on Tuesday. We ship everything from Tuesday-Friday and orders placed after 12 noon on Friday will be fulfilled the following week. All our coffees are shipped as whole beans unless requested otherwise in the 'notes' section at checkout. Although we send orders First Class, please bear in mind that all couriers are currently COVID impacted - even Royal Mail - so please allow 7 days for delivery.

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MORE ABOUT THIS COFFEE

Mustefa Abakeno is a smallholder farmer who owns 18 hectares of land near to Agaro in the Jimma area of Western Ethiopia. His farm and wet mill are located 2040 metres above sea level and the farm is planted with a variety of coffee cultivars from the Jimma research centre. Mustefa has a small disk pulper, which he uses for half of his coffee, the other half is dried as a natural. Due to a lack of water in the area and limited space to ferment the coffee, Mustefa ferments the coffee for a short period of time before he moves it to his drying beds, and the result is similar to a light honey process. Mustefa has recently registered as an exporter and is now able to sell his coffee directly to buyers, due to recent regulation changes in Ethiopia.

Mustefa has also set up a small wet mill where he processes coffee from his own farm and that of local ‘outgrowers’. We actually had one of these lots in towards the tail end of 2020 - Jamilaa Abakeno - a washed that was very delicate floral, tea flavours with honey sweetness. The outgrowers’ coffee is kept separate and dried on raised African beds. Mustefa’s outgrowers are all neighbours and have between 4 and 10 hectares of land each. He is processing both natural and washed coffee and all of it is semi-shade dried. Direct relationships like this provide a huge opportunity to drive up quality as our partners Falcon Speciality are able to work with Mustefa and his outgrowers on cherry selection, drying and farm management, covering all aspects of quality best practises. By working directly we are also able to make the supply chain much more efficient and maximise the amount of money that goes back to the producers.

We bought this coffee 2 or 3 harvests ago, and along with other coffees we’ve managed to revisit in 2020/2021, like Adado (Ethiopia) or Gitega Hills (Rwanda) it’s a very cool thing to be able to taste the improvements in coffee quality - harvest to harvest - that come from supporting green bean partners who actively invest in sustainability at the farm level as well as the positive reception that we’ve experienced from our own customers here in the UK, which allows us to keep showcasing these origins in the way we want to.  

Ethiopia - Mustefa Abakeno

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Ethiopia - Mustefa Abakeno

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Ethiopia - Mustefa Abakeno