Gelana Abaya

Coffee Name: GELANA ABAYA

Origin: ETHIOPIA

Process: NATURAL PULPING

Variety: HEIRLOOMS S

Coffee Notes: BLUEBERRY, STRAWBERRY, LEMON ZEST, PEACH, WINY

HISTORY

Coffee is ancient in Ethiopia, but coffee farming is not. By the end of the

9th Century coffee was actively being cultivated in Ethiopia as food, but

probably not as a beverage. It was the Arab world that developed

brewing. Even as coffee became an export for Ethiopia in the late

1800’s, Ethiopian coffee was the result of gathering rather than

agricultural practices. A hundred years ago, plantations, mostly in

Harar, were still the exception, while “Kaffa” coffee from the southwest

was still harvested wild. In 1935, William Ukers wrote: “Wild coffee is

also known as Kaffa coffee, from one of the districts where it grows

most abundantly in a state of nature. The trees grow in such profusion

that the possible supply, at a minimum of labor in gathering, is

practically unlimited. It is said that in south-western Abyssinia there are

immense forests of it that have never been encroached upon except at

the outskirts.” 

This is a Grade 1, natural, dry processed coffee cultivated and

processed in the Gelana and Abaya woredas (districts), located just

outside of Yirgacheffe.These neighboring districts provide a unique

character of coffee, and are infamously known for the detail, efficiency,

and meticulous care the farmers have when producing these coffees.