【2024/03/25】ETHIOPIA Yirgacheffe Kokoe Moplaco Heleanna Orange Cherry Natural

"Orange Cherry Natural" is a unique process coined by producer Heleanna.

Instead of going for the fully ripe, bright red coffee cherries, she daringly uses the orange ones that are on their way to ripeness. This brings a complexity and depth to the flavor.

I had a chat with Heleanna on Instagram Live, and she mentioned that this method was inspired by the olive oil production process. I thought that was really cool.

These beans are super rare and highly sought after, always sparking a bit of a scramble.

That's why we, through our importer TYPICA, start buying them a whole year in advance, even before they're produced. Yeah, we're talking about buying coffee a year ahead! It's pretty wild, considering no one knows what'll happen in a year.

We don't know what our store will be like, nor the farm, heck, not even the whole planet.

But we still buy them because it shows how much we trust in this and that we need to work super hard to justify it. “We've already bought next year's beans, so we gotta hustle and give it our all!” It really pumps up the motivation, and I want to keep buying them every year.