Ethiopian Dry-Process Ghimbi

Sweet Maria's Coffee

This dry-processed coffee from the Ghimbi - Lekempti region has a bit of a husky character, more of the typical flavors that are inherent to natural dry-processed coffees: earthy, pungent, fruity, and with a very long aftertaste. Ghimbi is in the provence of Wollega in the western Ethiopia highlands, and in the coffee world it is lumped in with the adjacent Lekempti (technically, 80 miles to the east). Ghimbi coffees are considered to be a tier below Harars, but there are some awesome lots and this is one! This lot is for those not afraid of these natural cup flavors. Some cups are definitely funky, as the variable nautre of Ethiopia Dry-Process coffees are prone to be. Others cups are very pleasurably fruited, with that touch of wildness...but not too much. It is not at all unexpected to have variation batch to batch, bag to bag, and cup to cup with a natural dry-processed coffee like this. For me, it is not a drawback - I like to taste the differences between the batches I roast! All cups are heavily fruited, like dried unsulphered natural apricot. There's everything else in here too; exotic spice (cardamom allspice). It's intense stuff... As far as variable cups goes, this is true with all dry-processed coffees, and always true with the Ethiopian dry-processed. It's just part of the sun-dried coffee process where whole cherry is patio-dried, then the whole husk and parchment is removed in one step, and all defective coffee seeds are removed by visual sorting. That means a few decent-looking seeds will make it through the process that are indeed a bit over-ripe or under-ripe. Cull out any really, really light-colored seeds after roasting. I had to score this coffee low for flavor and aftertaste and then add points back in a cupper's correction... this because some cuppers will hate this (ones who like clean, polite coffees) and me, I love it for its bold earthiness and heavyweight character. In fact, the dry fragrant aromatics when you grind this coffee is worth any overly-husky character it might possess.

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