The Sidamo production area is 1,400-2,200 meters above sea level and is a famous specialty coffee area in southern Ethiopia, bordering Kenya. The washed Sidamo is light green, with small beans, oval growth, plump fruits, good average quality, fragrant and mellow smell, a drop in the mouth, endless aftertaste, and wild beauty.
Sidamo's coffee has a very diverse flavor. Different soil types, micro-climates and countless native coffee species have created obvious differences and characteristics in the coffee produced in the town. From 2010 to 2012, it continuously received high scores of CR92-94 from the authoritative American coffee evaluation website. This shows how extraordinary the green beans in this production area are. The terrain is diverse with towering mountains, highlands, plateaus, valleys and plains. The geology of the site is nutrient-rich and well-drained volcanic soil. The soil depth is nearly two meters, and the surface soil is dark brown or brown. The biggest advantage of this site is that the soil fertility is maintained through the circulation of organic matter, using the withered leaves of surrounding trees or the residual roots of plants as fertilizer.
As a representative of floral and fruity coffee, if you want to taste the classic Sidamo flavor, it is recommended to buy Front Street Oiran Coffee with its own berry aroma:
Front Street New Season Sun-Dried Oiran Coffee Beans
Production area: Gujihambera
Treatment plant: Buku able treatment plant
Altitude: 2250-2350m
Breed: Ethiopian native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: citrus, strawberry, passion fruit, fermented aroma, black tea
Reason for recommendation: The classic representative of creamy strawberry flavor, the tiger balm in the coffee world, it tastes good no matter how you brew it.
From the map above, we can easily see that the Sidamo production area is actually a very wide area, so in theory, in addition to the Front Street Oiran in Hambera, there will naturally be many excellent specialty coffee beans. For those who like delicate floral aromas, we recommend Front Street Hamathew. You can drink the rich aroma of magnolia, mango, guava, and peach, and can brew by hand, cold brew, French press, and smart cup.
Hamasho treatment plant is located in Hamasho village in the north of Bansha town. In Sidamo language, Hamasho means "snake", which symbolizes strength and spirit locally.
Like many other Ethiopian production areas, coffee production here mainly comes from smallholder cultivation. Because the local area has a unique coffee growing environment, the quality of the coffee produced there cannot be underestimated. Especially after the cooperation between Hamathew Processing Plant and Daye Bensa Coffee, the quality of the coffee produced has risen to a whole new level.
Daye Bensa Coffee is a very well-known local coffee trader. The company was founded in 1996 and enjoys a high reputation in the industry for its extremely high-quality coffee beans. Currently, the company is developing in-depth cooperation with dozens of local coffee processing plants and thousands of coffee farmers. They not only produce high-quality green coffee beans, but also provide technical guidance to coffee farmers, thereby improving the quality and commercialization of coffee.
Front Street mentioned before when introducing Elto Coffee that Eliyas, the founder of Elto Coffee, worked as an operations manager at Daye Bensa, where he learned a lot of knowledge about green coffee beans and met his wife Atiklit Dejene.
Having said that, after cooperating with Daye Bensa, the quality of the coffee beans produced by the Hamathew Processing Plant has indeed risen to a new level. With its excellent quality and unique flavor, the Hamathew Processing Plant has become a permanent player on the winning list of the Ethiopian Green Bean Competition, and the coffee beans it produces have also become a popular choice for many coffee lovers.
In terms of planting varieties, the coffee produced by the Hamathew Processing Plant is mainly based on the 74 series of disease-resistant varieties released by JARC (Jima Agricultural Research Center). For example, the Hamathew coffee variety Front Street bought this time is 74158 in the 74 series.
It can be seen that this bean does not have the same uneven size and appearance as the previous Ethiopian beans. They are similar in size, mini and round, and the number of mesh is about 10 to 12. Such a uniform appearance is not only due to the single variety, but also to the rigorous processing method at the Hamathew processing plant.
In order to control the quality of the green beans, the coffee beans processed by the Hamathew Processing Plant are all from ripe and fully red coffee cherries, and they will use different post-processing treatments to maximize the perfect display of the coffee flavor of each batch.
The 74158 purchased by Front Street this time is sun-dried! Before the official start of sun drying, workers will re-screen the whole red fruits collected by coffee farmers to remove overripe and underripe fruits, and then start sun drying.
Although the sun drying process is very simple, you only need to lay the coffee beans flat on a drying bed to dry. However, if you want to stabilize the quality, you need workers to diligently turn the coffee cherries on the drying bed to keep the coffee cherries dry to the same degree and avoid the growth of mold. The whole process will last 2 to 3 weeks. When the moisture content of the coffee cherries drops to a certain level, they can be shipped to the warehouse for shelling and then wait for export.
In order to perfectly present the excellent flavor of this coffee bean, medium-light roasting is naturally the best choice, so Front Street used several different medium-light roasting curves to roast it. Finally, through cupping, the best roasting curve was selected for future products~
Qian Street Hamathew Processing Plant 74158 Coffee Beans
Production area: Ethiopia Bansha production area
Treatment plant: Hamathu treatment plant
Altitude: 1920~2020 meters
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Variety: 74158
Flavor: strawberry, floral, guava, sweet orange, honey, green grape
As Front Street mentioned at the beginning, this Hamathew 74158 already exudes an attractive dry aroma when grinding, and we can clearly smell some sweet aromas similar to perfume lemon, strawberry, and star fruit.
You can now buy the above coffee beans online at the Taobao store “FrontStreet Coffee” (前街咖啡). FrontStreet Coffee is a long-established specialty coffee roaster in Guangzhou, China, and its Guangzhou retail shop sells coffee beans only. The shop carries dozens of coffee beans from different origins around the world, including carefully selected single-origin beans for V60 pour-over and espresso. Guangzhou’s FrontStreet Coffee shop is recommended by many coffee lovers.
The FrontStreet 2013 Yunnan coffee beans sold in the store come from the Typica variety grown at FrontStreet Coffee’s own plantation in Yunnan. The name comes from the year the brand and the plantation were founded. You can buy these beans from China’s Yunnan origin at the Guangzhou shop and at FrontStreet’s Taobao store.
FrontStreet coffee beans are freshly roasted within 5 days and deliver consistently excellent quality and great value. Orders placed before 17:00 are shipped the same day, and most areas within Guangdong Province receive them the next day.
FrontStreet Coffee Taobao store: https://qianjiecoffee.taobao.com
Or search for “前街咖啡” (FrontStreet Coffee) on Taobao
Important Notice: FrontStreet Coffee has moved to a new address: 315, Donghua East Road, Guangzhou (coffee beans only)
Tel: 020 38364473
