This is one the highest scoring Ethiopia coffees of the year. We are fortunate to have two 30kg grainpro bagged boxes enroute. Now available for advance order. Order yours now and save big time while our insane end of year thankyou sale is running!

The first production roast and ship will be Monday January 9, 2012 (was Wednesday January 11, 2012 If other coffees are ordered at the same time the entire order will be held for that's day production.

Compass is charging $18.75 for 12ozs but if you apply thankyou or thank you or thank-you during checkout you'll get 33% off through this Monday. So I ordered 4 bags that came to a total of $55.24, which including $5.00 for shipping. That translated into an actual cost of $13.81 per 12oz bag, which I thought was a pretty good price especially since it included the shipping charge.

I'm not a huge fan of their reviews but some might find this helpful http://www.coffeereview.com/review.cfm?ID=2693

And after a quick search on HB I found:

What are you roasting for espresso lately? and Ethiopia Tchembe

Arrived Wednesday morning 1/4. The greens, oh the greens smell to die for! Roast dialed in that afternoon and yum! Post roast warm bean munch and right out of roaster brewed (Clever w/Swissgold) reminded me of fresh tropical fruit salad. Half a dozen two pounders now sitting around taunting, talking to us, waiting to get some rest before launching in our coffeehouse's SO espresso hoppers.

But that's ok, right now at the Roastery coffeehouse running Harrar for the SO espresso and it ain't none too shabby. Washed Sidama up next.

I picked up a bit of the Tchembe greens and have to agree that the green coffee smells fantastic. You know your in for something good when the coffee smells this good green.

I've been making myself a cup of this each morning through a Chemex since the 4th when we roasted it and it's outstanding. I openly confess that we may have never offered a better coffee. Opinions are what they are, but seriously, this coffee is unbelievable. Flavors read like a bowl of fruit salad (as Mike mentioned). Think strawberry, orange, pineapple, watermelon, red grape, even banana. The sweetness is the most intriguing part to me because even though its a full natural coffee it's not fermenty tasting at all, something I find unfortunate in a lot of full natural coffees. Its not a blueberry bomb (not yet at least, it's only 2 days off roast).

I'm very excited for the 16th when we run this through the portafilters for the first time.

-bry

Any suggestions on dosing and time yet?
Excited to get my package tomorrow!

I actually have not pulled the Tchembe as espresso yet. It will hit our hoppers on Monday and I'll report back after that.

-bry

I pulled a couple shots this morning, and the coffee seems pretty forgiving, lots of good flavors, very few off ones.

I got a good shot at 200f, 18g for about 1.5oz in 30 seconds. Very ristretto, not very sweet though for such a tight shot, and the fruit flavors were subdued (which was surprising because the dry coffee smells like Jolly Ranchers). Tea and toasted nuts dominated, but a fairly clean tasting cup for a dry process coffee.

I think I could drink something like this every day, and I'm assuming that with a little tweaking you could get either more chocolate flavors or more fruit flavors to come out. I'll be interested to see how other people pull it, I'm guessing we might see a lot of variation.

After burning through about 5lbs in 4 hours I can say I've definitely got a whole new respect for this coffee. There are so many different flavors that you can pinpoint with this one depending on how you pull it. Patience is your friend with this one. We're pulling 12 day Tchembe this morning and I still feel like it might be a little young for espresso.

Chocolate, banana and pomegranate:
- 19g dose
- 32g yield
- 200f
- 28 secs

Pineapple, grape, tart apple, watermelon:
- 17.5g dose
- 28g yield
- 198.5f
- 24 secs

I'm liking this one spread out with a little water. Makes an absolutely outstanding 100ml Americano. Personally, I like the 17.5g/28g shot better.

-bry

Interesting. I'll try the 2nd one tomorrow morning. My first 5 shots were meh. Maybe since it was too young.