October 7, 2022

Sideyard Coffee: October 7 - Ethiopia 🇪🇹 Guji Natural

Hello Sideyard Friends,

This week's coffee is from the Mormora farm in Ethiopia. Located in the Guji Zone, most of Mormora's coffee is from heirloom varietal shrubs and shade grown. The farm also has organic certification. After being harvested, the cherries in this lot are sun dried on raised beds for three weeks before getting pulped/separated from the seeds. This natural process (sometimes called dry process) generally imparts funkier and fruiter flavors than wet process fermentation.

The first thing that I noticed in the cup was the roundedness. It's juicy, modestly bright, and as round as a beachball. I'm almost all the way on board with the importer's tasting notes: strawberry, vanilla, orange blossom, and black tea. The strawberry hits first. The vanilla is mostly in the aroma (and gets covered up quickly with cream). The black tea is in the slightly tannic finish. I haven't stuck my nose in an orange blossom, so I'm not quite sure where to find that note, but I am picking up on something slightly more tropical... so maybe? 

The origin track for the week swings hard. Honey Baby by Alemayehu Eshete. 

Single bags of are back in stock and tasting great.

Cheers,

Ryan

importers' tasting notes (and roasters' for that matter) are often hopelessly exaggerated. Even with careful roasting and brewing, it can take a trained palette and sustained concentration/time to coax out the nuanced flavors in a cup of coffee! In order to fight this over-promising, I cup the coffee without the importer's notes in front of me and try to only promise what I can personally taste.