Roast Profile: Medium dark
Flavor Profile: The cup has medium body, medium acidity, sweet and smooth with notes of dark chocolate and dark berries.
Certification: organic and shade grown

This Ethiopian Mokasida is organic and shade grown. It consists of heirloom Arabica varieties that grow wild in the Kambata, Sidamo and Wolyata region. It is quite different from the other regions, in that it is smoother and sweeter, rather than acidic. Historically, Ethiopia is known as the birthplace of coffee and there are many varieties of coffee cultivars grow throughout the country. This particular coffee is grown, picked and processed on hundreds of small 1-2 acre family garden farms. These small farms utilize the traditional method of intercropping several agricultural products under the shade of the forest canopy and the coffee is sun dried and natural processed.

Wild coffee varieties growing in the Mokasida region of Ethiopia

Farmers picking the ripe coffee cherries in the Mokasida region of Ethiopia.

Drying beds used in the natural process in the Mokasida region of Ethiopia.