Ethiopia Birhanu Haile

Birhanu Haile is one of the youngest coffee farmers in the Jabanto farmers group, based in the Aricha village.

This is his natural processed coffee, where well-ripe red cherries are dried for 18-21 days on a raised platform called an African drying bed. During all of these days, cherry quality control continues and to maintain uniform drying among beans, the coffee is turned around on the bed manually six times per day.

This technique plus the complex interactions among soil, rainfall distribution, temperature, shade, and genetic makeup of varieties play the greatest role to affect the quality profile of this beautiful coffee.