Ethiopian Coffee

#1: Post by **louise78** » September 3rd, 2016, 5:50 pm

What do you guys think about Ethiopian coffee?
I've been using it for a lot of months now, and I just love the taste. However, I want to know about more brands and good ethiopian coffee.
If you want cheap and delicious coffee, then Ethiopian coffee is what I recommend

#2: Post by **redbone** » September 3rd, 2016, 7:43 pm

If you like bright citrusy espresso coffees than I can see the preference for 100% Ethiopian coffee. I prefer to blend it with some South American coffee like Brazilian for some other notes like chocolate and balance.

September 3rd, 2016, 8:44 pm

louise78 wrote:What do you guys think about Ethiopian coffee?
I've been using it for a lot of months now, and I just love the taste. However, I want to know about more brands and good ethiopian coffee.
If you want cheap and delicious coffee, then Ethiopian coffee is what I recommend

I'm a big fan of fruity Ethiopians, but I must admit that I've never found them 'cheap' - at least not from my local roasters! Are you speaking about greens purchases? Or have you come across a cheap brand name Ethiopian?

#4: Post by **rpavlis** » September 3rd, 2016, 8:54 pm

There are different coffee growing regions in Ethiopia, and they differ quite a bit.

There also are dry process Ethiopian coffees and "wet" process ones. These differ, at least to me, dramatically. The dry processed Harrar Ethiopia coffee is somewhat like the traditional Yemen coffee, at least to me. Yirgacheffe is famous. Coffee from there seems mostly wet processed, though some of it is "dry", often called natural.

September 3rd, 2016, 10:13 pm

louise78 wrote:What do you guys think about Ethiopian coffee?
I've been using it for a lot of months now, and I just love the taste. However, I want to know about more brands and good ethiopian coffee.

There is something magical about Ethiopian coffees; when I was starting out, they were the big "wow, I want more of this stuff" coffee. If you want way too much information on Ethiopian coffees, Willem Boot's guide is very good.

If you want cheap and delicious coffee, then Ethiopian coffee is what I recommend

If you go to an Ethiopian grocery; you can still get inexpensive dry process Sidamos; but at regular cafes and roasters, they are the same as most other coffees.

#6: Post by **jitters** » September 4th, 2016, 2:22 am

For the last 6 months I've been using Ethiopians more than any other coffee and my wife and I like the fruitiness. They are still our favorites.

Jim thanks for that link to the Ethiopian Buying Guide. That looks like a good read!

#7: Post by **Bak Ta Lo** » September 4th, 2016, 2:41 am

jitters wrote: Jim thanks for that link to the Ethiopian Buying Guide. That looks like a good read!

+1
Amazing, what a great resource, and free!

September 4th, 2016, 4:35 pm

Thanks for all the replies, nice to see more people interested in this

Thanks for that little manual/guide, a lot of valuable information in there!

#9: Post by **Unrooted** » September 5th, 2016, 6:54 pm

The only coffee I've been successful at roasting myself is an Ethiopian Natural, it has a very strong blueberry brightness. I love the fruitier coffees from Ethiopia, Kenya and Burundi. I had an amazing Kenya Karagoto from Elysian Coffee of Vancouver BC, it had a very strong Black Currant Jam Flavor.

Thump Coffee from Bend Oregon has a good Ethiopian Natural with a strong Blueberry flavor.

#10: Post by **pepulitz** » September 8th, 2016, 9:05 am

I went through a phase where I only drank Ethiopian coffee for months, but lately I've not been drinking a lot of it. This thread reminded me of how much I used to love it!