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Ethiopia Hachira N2 Natural - Ninety Plus

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    Ethiopia Hachira N2 Natural - Ninety Plus

    Cup Characteristics: We found noticeable cinnamon flavor with strawberry presence. The brew is unctuous and silky. Cuppers noted lychee sweetness and flavor, persimmon, star anise. Tart, nutty and followed by big, long finish. Very clean. Overall, a very big fruity flavor profile that is not overpowering but rather balanced.

    $34.99
     
    This Willoughby's Serious Select coffee will be roasted and shipped on Tuesdays 4/19 and 4/26.

    We receive this raw coffee in grainpro within boxes so it holds up very well. This coffee is from Ninety-Plus, a US company that has been working for some years in Ethiopia to develop coffees of real distinction. Their emphasis is on coffee cherry processing, which is what they attribute to be the most important element toward producing great coffee. They have made an art out of working on the processing side and they consider themselves 'coffee makers' rather than producers. Of course, they need to begin with highly selected cherries, but from there they separate coffees based on the desired cup profile and alter their processing techniques to achieve their aims. This places less emphasis on varietal, microclimate and farm management and puts the focus more squarely on how to get these nice coffee cherries to taste very special. We have offered a number of their coffees in past years, both from Ethiopia and Panama, and after having cupped our way through this year's initial offerings, have selected their Hachira N2. Aficionados of natural process coffees will certainly want to try it.

    This particular lot is a mixture of Heirloom Arabica beans that are grown in the Yirgacheffe region of Ethiopia which sits at an altitude of about 6560 feet above sea level. Ninety-Plus works with and sells mainly "natural processed" coffee categorized by degrees of fruit-drying influence on flavor. The Hachira is a category N2 which in their terms means "coffees with high fruit drying influence on flavor" so you can be sure that these beans are full of sweetness and fruity notes. Sundried coffee harvesting is done mostly by the farming families where cherries are dried on mats that sit on raised drying beds and dried to roughly 11.5% moisture. This is very cleanly prepared dry processed coffee with a minimum of quakers which are often more frequently found in naturals. The result is an even roast.

    Arrived packed in grainpro packaging within boxes so the coffee is free free from taints and has been protected from the elements.

    Yirgacheffe Gedeo Zone information

    • Coffee produced: once a year
    • Harvesting: September - December
    • Climate: Light rain Jan - Feb; heavy rains Jun - Sep
    • Production system: Garden
    • Soil Type: 50% volcanic, 25% sedimentary, 25% other
    • Cultivar: Heirloom Typica
    • Height of the tree: 6 to12 feet
    • Growing Altitude: 1700 -2000 meters
    • Coverage: 30,000 hectares

    Hachira coffee was inspired by Aricha, another coffee developed during 2006-08 by Ninety Plus with the assistance of Yirgacheffe coffee guru S.A. Bagersh. Ninety Plus describes the coffee's character as juicy and floral, commonly with concentrated elderberry to blackberry fruit, sometimes with basil-like herbal tones.