When people mention Africa, their first impression is: desert, drought, tribes, poverty, mystery, etc. Precisely because of its climate and environment, it has become a paradise for coffee trees to grow. The world's first coffee tree was discovered in the Horn of Africa. With the passage of time, Ethiopian coffee has become a high-quality representative that everyone talks about, and Yirgacheffe is the "leader".
The town of Yirgacheffe is located in the Sidama region of Ethiopia, with a planting altitude of 1,700-2,200 meters. It is the administrative center of the Ethiopian coffee growing area and one of the production areas that produces high-quality Ethiopian coffee beans. Since every household in Yirgacheffe makes a living by growing coffee, their coffee output is not particularly large, so after harvesting the fruits, they will sell them to the town's cooperative processing plant for unified processing, and then the coffee beans will be exported in the name of the cooperative.
The high altitude brings a large temperature difference between day and night to Yirgacheffe. The temperature difference between day and night delays the production speed of coffee fruits and can form more flavors. The reason why so many people like Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee beans is because its rich floral and fruity aroma and bright acidity break people’s stereotype of coffee having only a bitter taste. It was also from Yirgacheffe coffee beans that everyone began to know that coffee can also have such a clear, clean, layered and graceful taste.
Front Street Yirgacheffe coffee beans have bright citrus acidity, rich white floral aroma, and a honey-like sweet aftertaste. The various floral and fruity aromas bring a very fresh tone to the coffee beans grown in the Yirgacheffe region.
Traditional Yirgacheffe is divided into two types: washed and sun-dried.
Washed Yirgacheffe uses a machine to peel off the peel and pulp of the coffee fruits and ferment them in a fermentation tank with clean water for 12-36 hours. The acidity generated by the fermentation will decompose the pectin. After decomposition, the pectin will be washed with clean water and then dried in the sun. The water washing method can remove impurities (stones or garbage, etc.) and defective beans through each step. Therefore, the green beans have a uniform appearance, better cleanliness, and stable flavor. They are generally considered to be of high quality, and the transaction price is also more expensive.
Recommended for washed Yirgacheffe: Front Street Guo Dingding coffee beans
Production area: Yirgacheffe production area
Altitude: 1900-2000m
Treatment method: washed
Variety: Heirloom native species
Flavor: Jasmine citrus berries Tea feeling
Sun-dried Yirgacheffe isThe harvested coffee cherries are placed directly on the drying bed for sun drying. Sun-drying is one of the oldest and most traditional processing methods. Coffee berries are dried in the sun immediately after being picked. It is more common in areas with sufficient sunshine or water shortage. For example, nearly 70% of coffee cherries in all producing areas of Ethiopia are sun-dried. Compared with washed coffee, sun-dried Yirgacheffe has lower acidity, higher sweetness, clear touch, but slightly lower cleanliness. The flavor will have more berry tones and be more complex.
Sundried Yirgacheffe Recommendation: Front Street Red Cherry Coffee Beans
Production area: Yirgacheffe Altlan processing plant
Altitude: 2300m
Breed: Ethiopian native species
Treatment method: Sun treatment
Flavor: citrus, berry, fermented fruit aroma, honey, cream taste
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
