Ethiopia Chelbesa (Organic) Espresso

Clean and sweet, smooth body with lemonade and black tea notes.

• Organic
• Shade Grown
• Handpicked
• Glyphosate Free

• Intro
• Technical Details
• Recipe

• The Chelbesa Washing Station is a private mill that handles exclusively organic coffee grown by 650 local smallholders located in the Danche area of the Gedeb woreda, in the highlands above Yirgachefe. The washing station was established in 2019 by Ato Sisay, his fourth washing station and third in Yirgachefe. Sisay and his team specialise in clean, expressive coffee that clearly convey the variety and local practices of its appellation. In this case, we love the clean, sweet and tea-like quality of this washed coffee, a profile that Gedeb is renowned for.

  Exclusively hand-picked, ripe cherry is collected at the washing station and separated as day lots. Upon receipt, cherries are floated to remove any under-ripes and are depulped on the same-day. The coffee is wet fermented for 48 hours before drying on raised beds for 20 days.

• • Wet Mill Chelbesa Washing Station
  • Producers 650 local organic smallholders
  • Altitude 1,950 - 2,200 masl
  • Region Gedeb woreda, Gedeo zone
  • Processing Washed Process
  • Drying Raised Beds for 20 days
  • Varieties Local Landrace Varieties
  • Harvest January 2024
  • Roasted On IMF RM60
• • 20.0g

    ground coffee dose

  • 29

    seconds

  • 44g

    espresso shot yield

  • 93.0º

    brew temperature

  This recipe was developed on a La Marzoco Linea PB, using a Anfim SPII+ grinder. We encourage you to play around to meet your personal tastes and equipment setup.