Duba
Natural Ethiopian Heirlooms
€7.00
Out of stock
Tastes of: Peach, Jasmine, Black tea & Honey
About the coffee:
This lot is named in honor of Chief Duba and comes from plots that he manages. Chief duba and Chief Saffay are both highly respected community leaders, they know how to address social issues correctly and are incredibly important to Bette buna's team in Guji; they help manage the farm plots, enabling farmers and Bette buna to grow coffee in a sustainable way.
This coffee was dried very typically for the region on raised African style beds over a period of 20-25 days. Once the correct moisture level was reached, the cherries was bagged, tagged and moved to storage to rest for a minimum of 8 weeks to improve the complexity and intensity of each cup profile. After dry milling locally to remove the hulls, the team applied another round of hand sorting to remove any primary defects before the bags of green coffee were loaded on a truck to the Bette Buna dry mill in Gelan, located close to Addis Ababa. Here the green beans underwent another round of cleaning, screening on size and density, and color sorting, and were bagged a final time.
Altitude: 2000-2200 MASL
Process: Natural
Location: Guji, Megadu
Varietal: 74112,74110, Wild Guji Megadu
About Bette Buna:
Bette Buna literally translates to "House of Coffee". Our producers started after Dawit's Grandfather Syoum and Grandmother Emame asked him and Hester to take over their farm and responsibility for building the community of Taferi Kela. Even though this village shares a mountain range with better-known Sidamina producers, it has been overlooked so far and no other company or industry of any type works in this area.
Although coffee productions accounts for about a third of the country's GDP, most people working in coffee (≈90%) do not make a livable income. Bette Buna has set out to change that in their community. Through teaching farmers to improve their soil, agro-forestry systems, the importance of picking ripe cherries they help their community produce better and more coffee. Resulting in a more livable income. Bette Buna is an equal opportunity employer, which is rare in a culture that doesn't typically provide meaningful work for differently abled or disabled people. This is particularly visible in their nursery, where you could see deaf people, families of people with disabilities and other marginalized groups, such as single mothers.
We met Hester in March and got to see the passion and care she has for her community. After tasting their coffees, we could not be happier to work directly with someone who cares this much about their community bringing hope and opportunity to communities through coffee.