Organic Ethiopian Suke Quto Filter
Organic Ethiopian Suke Quto Filter Roast
Fully Washed New Crop 2024
Please note this coffee is organic and will only be roasted on Wednesdays. Thanks so much for understanding.
Although a few months later than expected, we have the delight of Suke Quto back again. There is no other coffee quite like it. Forget the weather (we’ve got quite good at that) this is like drinking sunshine. I like to think this is a coffee that should take a little time to set up and slowly enjoy.
Tesfaye is a true coffee legend, and we enjoy supporting Suke Quto. Although we are a small company, being part of the bigger picture and supporting multiple producers annually has a positive impact. We buy this coffee via Trabocca who have been instrumental in bringing some of the best coffees in the world to market.
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Suke Quto
Varieties: Kurume and Welicho
Location: Oromia Region, Guji Zone Sidamo
Altitude:1800 – 2200 meters
Process: Fully washed
Soil type: Loamy soil
Average rainfall:950mm
Shade trees: Millettia Ferruginea, Cordia Africana, Albizia Gummifera, Anigeria, Croton Macrostachyus, Eucberigia
Roast: Filter
Cup Profile:🥣
Aromatics: Delicate, fruit tea | Body: Tongue Coating on cooling| Acidity: Peach and a hint of lime|
Oddly, I am sipping this coffee almost silently, in trepidation of the outcome. Suke Quto is a big thing for us!
Soft, sweet peach-like fruit sugars open with a finish akin to a high-quality, orthodox black tea, think Nilgiri Pearl. Unusually for this level (light/ medium filter) of roast, there is a mouth-coating body. In the same way that quiet understated things can stand out, Suke Quto washed is conspicuous through its subtle persistence. The levels of sweetness are so high, yet somehow sugar-free. On cooling the fruit sugars are persistent and with all of the right things in place (freshness, good water fresh burrs, etc) Apricot, peach, and lime should be within your reach in extraction. This is such a delicious filter coffee. This might make it into espresso in a few weeks.
Recipe: I would start at 60g per litre for batch, V60 and Aeropress.
It is no secret that we buy much of our Ethiopian coffee from Trabocca as they have been reinvesting and paying premiums on the ground in Ethiopia for years. Trabocca started working with Suke Quto in 2009 and has been a major part of increasing the quality of coffee produced there and investing in infrastructure and even a school.
Rather than I try to tell you about this coffee, you can see the whole value in the chain from fair food, here. In the future, we hope to see more of this as it is clean and independent trade. If you see Suke Quto available, it’s a great project to support and coffee to buy.
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