After 2011 it became quite hard to source quality Ethiopian coffee. The past two years I have been buying most of my coffee instead of roasting it though, so I am curious to hear if things have changed? I see that my local roasters now stock decent Ethiopian coffee again, but it is pretty much always from Yirgacheffe, sometimes Sidamo. I have not tasted a Harar since 2011...

What is the status on traceability and microlots? Is the situation still difficult or is it possible for dedicated roasters to acquire quality coffee also from areas such as Harar?

-t

There's no shortage of grade 4 Harar at this end of the world, but higher grade Harars tend to be specific to certain washing stations and get named as such, so you might not see them labelled as from the Harar district. The main effect of the ECX has been to increase prices.

Alan

Dieter01 wrote:After 2011 it became quite hard to source quality Ethiopian coffee. The past two years I have been buying most of my coffee instead of roasting it though, so I am curious to hear if things have changed? I see that my local roasters now stock decent Ethiopian coffee again, but it is pretty much always from Yirgacheffe, sometimes Sidamo. I have not tasted a Harar since 2011...

What is the status on traceability and microlots? Is the situation still difficult or is it possible for dedicated roasters to acquire quality coffee also from areas such as Harar?

-t

We have access to high end Harrar, the problem with Ethiopia per say is that their form of government is some sort of hybrid communist socialist situation, there is a lot of government involved in the trade.