Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji + No Coffee Next Week
Hello Sideyard Friends,
This week’s coffee is from the mountainous volcanic soils of the Guji zone in southern Ethiopia. Despite neighboring the Sidama region (and within Sadama, Yirgacheffe), coffee grown in Guji has its own unique profile. Standard descriptors include silky/smooth, bright, citrusy/bergamot, tea, and floral/jasmine. This week’s coffee does not fall far from that tree (or coffee shrub if you will). It’s on the lighter/brighter end of a medium roast and I’m tasting lemongrass, black tea, brown sugar, and citrus.
Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru’s classical jazz piano came to mind while tasting this coffee, so here’s a recording released just a week after she passed away in 2022 at the age of 99–The Home of Beethoven.
Next week is a fifth Friday which means no coffee. The next subscription deliveries will be Friday, June 7.
Cheers,
Ryan
Extras: I think there’s one from this week, plus some assorted spares from the past few weeks. https://sideyard.coffee/pages/single-bags