Koke Honey (B2B)

* 7.5 kg buckets for Berlin customers only

Koke Honey – fruity and complex.
A clean coffee with hints of fresh pineapple, peach, and the depth of ripe fruit. Complexity with a little funk.

Roasted for filter.

 

 

What's inside:

100% Ethiopia Koke Honey

Producer: Smallholder Farms
Altitude: 1,600m
Variety: Kurume, Dega Wolishu
Process: red honey

A wonderful discovery and exciting on many levels. The Kurume and Wolishu varieties are already something special. Added to this is the red honey processing, which is rather rare for Ethiopia, at least we hadn't come across it before. 

The lot comes from the kebeles (Ethiopian communities) of Birbes Kela, Koke, Konga, Wedessa, and Tisho. Many small farms bring their harvest to the Koke Washing Station, where this coffee was processed. 

We source the coffee from our partner Allly Coffee, which has had a close partnership with the washing station since 2015. The station was built in 2011, and the partnership with Ally has been in place since 2015. Over the years, many improvements have been made, staff have been trained, and farmers have also been supported with know-how and targeted mentoring programs to improve their coffee quality. Through close cooperation between farms, washing stations, and importers, it has been possible to significantly raise the overall quality level, which is not only relevant for buyers and consumers, but also benefits farmers by enabling them to achieve higher prices for their green coffee.

Honey Process:
This form of processing is less common in Ethiopia. Nevertheless, it gives the coffee a rather exciting profile. The harvested coffee cherries are fermented in their own pulp for two days before being pulped. The pulped coffee is then dried on raised beds to its optimal moisture content.

The coffee is then prepared for export at Tracon Trading's coffee cleaning and storage facility on a 30,000 square meter site in Addis Ababa. The facility is equipped with modern Pinhalense coffee processing machines and a Bühler Z+ color sorter. The machine has a capacity of six tons per hour. The beans undergo a final hand sorting process on conveyor belts. The facility's six storage silos have a capacity of around 15,000 tons. The warehouses are clean and have sufficient light and ventilation, which is ideal for maintaining the quality of the coffee during storage.