YULETIDE ESPRESSO | Limited Edition Festive Blend | 50% Guatemala 50% Ethiopia
YULETIDE ESPRESSO | Limited Edition Festive Blend | 50% Guatemala 50% Ethiopia
Yuletide blend is back for another festive season!
For best results we would always recommend purchasing whole bean and grinding fresh before brewing. If you don't have a grinder, we can grind according to your preferred brewing method just before shipping.
Great for espresso machines, mocha pots (stove-tops), Aeropress & cafetière. Delicious on its own and with milk.
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Yuletide blend is back for the third festive season!
Once again, we bring you an extremely limited edition espresso blend combining two delightful coffees to give an extra festive flair to your flat whites. In a similar vein to previous years’ blend, we have combined lots from Guatemala and Ethiopia in equal proportion. A’xola Women’s Coop’s classic washed lot from Huehuetenango, Guatemala brings the lovely creamy almondy base and the natural lot from Bette Buna’s farm in Taferi Kela, Ethiopia adds a vibrant fruity note and lifts up the cup.
Expect a sticky sweet, fruity and highly drinkable espresso. Dare we say, we’re getting Christmas pud vibes? We hope you love it as much as we do!
Key Origin Info:
Taferi Kela by Bette Buna
Producer: Bette Buna with cherry from local small-holder growers from the Taferi Kela community
Processed at: Bette Buna’s processing station
Region: Sidama, Ethiopia
Altitude: 1900 - 2100 masl
Variety: Local cultivated landrace - 74112,74158 & Enat Buna
Process: “Kickstart” Natural; the harvested and cleaned cherries are first kept in an anaerobic environment before being slowly dried on raised beds
Exporter: Bette Buna | Importer: Falcon Specialty
A’xola Cooperative
Produced & processed by: women growers of the A’xola Cooperative
Processed at: each grower’s own wet mill and drying facility
Region: Huehuetenango, Guatemala
Altitude: 1700 masl
Variety: Pache, Bourbon & Sarchimor
Process: Washed, dried on patios
Exporter: Primavera Coffee | Importer: Primavera Coffee
More Bette Buna and this lot:
Bette Buna is an impact driven coffee company, established by Hester and her husband Dawit Syoum after Dawit’s grandparents asked them to take over their family coffee farm and nurture the local community in Taferi Kela village.
The name literally translates to “Home of Coffee” and their work includes acting as an exporter as well as operating two farms & processing sites, and perhaps most importantly being a pillar in their communities. Using quality coffee as a tool for inclusive local development.
This lot comes from cherry harvested by the community of growers around Taferi Kela village. It was processed by Bette Buna using their signature “Kickstart” natural method developped by their processing team as a way to concentrate the sugars and change their structures before the normal natural processing begins. After taking the cherries to the wet mill, the team gave them a “kick” by putting them in an anaerobic environment for a short amount of time before continuing processing. Not long enough for official fermentation to begin, but long enough that the structure of the sugar within the cherries changed. This produces lots with more sweetness and body on top of the standard Sidamo natural profile. And we think the result is delicious!
More about A’xola:
This coffee is produced by members of the A’xola Cooperative. The cooperative was founded in 1989 and has grown from 36 to 150 members over the years. They are based in the community of Petatan and work together to market and sell their high quality coffee.
The members are both men and women, and as a group they prioritize the participation of women and seek to improve the quality of life of all members and their families.
This particular lot come form the women’s group withon the coop who proudly carry the “Con Manos de Mujer” (“Made by Women’s Hands”) certification. The coffee for this lot is composed of small lots cultivated, harvested and processed at each grower’s individual farm and mill and carefully sorted and blended together at the coop’s facilities.
