Eye of the Tiger Espresso

Presenting the latest edition of our seasonally evolving espresso blend, Eye of the Tiger. This iteration is built around a pair of coffees from Ethiopia. The first coffee comes from the Suke Quto farm which is owned and operated by Ato Tesfaye Bekele, one of the people that helped to put the Guji region on the specialty coffee map. At nearly 550 acres, Suke Quto coffee farm, washing station and dry mill have become a force in the highlands of Guji. Suke Quto works with 171 neighboring farmers that deliver coffee cherries to the mill. This fully washed contributes spicy and subtly floral notes to the espresso blend.

Like Suke Quto, the second Ethiopian coffee also comes from the Guji region. The Mulish washing station, located 40 km away from Shakiso town in Southern Ethiopia, is well established as one of the best in the Guji Zone. Set on a slope leading down to the Mormora river, the washing station sits on four hectares of land. Before Mulish was built, coffee farmers in the area had to make long, arduous trips to deliver their coffee cherries to washing stations, but after recognizing the potential of the growing communities in the area and the need for centrally located washing stations, Faysel Abdosh and Testi Coffee purchased the facility and took over its management. This natural, or dry processed coffee adds fruit-forward flavors to the espresso.

To add complexity and body, we finished the blend with a fully washed coffee produced by Masrcos de Marcos Gaspar, who is a member of Coordinadora de Organizaciones de Desarrollo de Concepción Huista (CODECH). Located in northern Guatemala’s Sierra de los Cuchumatanes mountain range, on the steep and rugged roads of Concepción Huista, CODECH was established in 1998 when the Alliance for Youth Community Development teamed up with local organizations to create an entity that would represent the interests of the municipality.

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