RECOMMENDED PREPARATIONS: Filter (V60, Melitta, Kalita, Machines), French Press, AeroPress, Cold Brew

It’s a timeless classic and it’s back! We love a washed Ethiopian: Black tea flavours accompanied by subtle cantaloup fruitiness, jasmin florals and honey sweetness with an elegant body.

Although it of course makes a great everyday coffee, we recommend you take your time to enjoy how the flavours develop and unfold as it cools down. Slow coffee at its finest.

Farming methods in Ethiopia are fairly traditional and the farmers grow a mix of different crops next to the coffee trees in order to maximise the use of their land and provide food for their family. Most farms are organic by default as very little - if any - fertilizers or pesticides are used and work is done manually by the immediate family. The washing station supports these smallholder farmers not only with know-how and training to achieve better quality cherries and in best practices when it comes to harvesting and transport to the station. The organisation running the station also contributes to community wellbeing by building schools for local children and supporting clean water accessibility projects as well as helping to connect homes to the electricity grid.

When the cherries are delivered to the washing station, they are sorted and pulped before being fermented for 36 to 48 hours. After the parchment is washed, it is dried on raised beds for approximately 18 days.

ROASTED FOR: filter preparation

ORIGIN: Ethiopia

REGION: Shantawene, Sidamo

PRODUCER: 800 Farmers delivering cherries to Ayla Station

VARIETALS: JARC Varieties

ALTITUDE: 1950 m

PROCESSING: fully washed

CUPPING NOTES: jasmin florals, bergamotte, honey sweetness, elegant body

SIZE: 250 g / 1 kg

OUR PREFERRED RECIPE: AeroPress (inverted) - use 12g of medium ground coffee and 200g of water just off the boil. Start by adding 50g of water to the coffee and give it a good stir so all grounds are thoroughly wetted. Then add the rest of your water, stir 5 times, put the lid on and press the top chamber down to release any excess air (this will prevent the AeroPress from opening when you flip it) and wait until 2 minutes. Then flip the AeroPress and press it into a vessel, mug or cup during about 30 seconds.