If you think Ethiopian coffee is boring because you can access it at any time, you are quite wrong.
This time I would like to introduce the crazy coffee please from Ethiopia, Gedebu area, called Gedebu Carbonic.
Ethiopia Gedebu Carbonic
I have written the article about Gringo Nordic Coffee Roasters below earlier, even though the actual shop is in Gothenburg and I live far north up, I am already a big fan of this coffee brand.
In this time, we will focus on more in terms of processing so that in the future if you travel around as a coffee nerd, you have more expansive and precise knowledge about coffee to drink.
The reason why I thought it was going to be useful to write a post not about the coffee shop that I always do, but about the processing or coffee production features is that every time I bring my friends to the coffee shop, they ask me how I choose the coffee beans or coffee drinks.
When I want to order a cup of coffee or coffee beans to bring back home, I always pay attention to the below factors.
- Country
- Region
- Processing
- Variety
- Altitude
- Roast level
If I want to explain everything above it will be an endless post so I only focus on processing this time.
In the coffee industry processing means how you wash and dry the coffee cherry after you pick them up from the coffee tree.
There are several ways to do that such as washed, natural, honey, black honey, red honey and carbonic.
Processing makes a huge difference in terms of the thickness of the body and also the type of acidity.
What is Carbonic processing?
Especially if you see the processing called carbonate which is quite rare to find, it means that "a method of fermentation that involves placing whole cherries in a stainless steel barrel and allowing them to sit in a carbon dioxide-rich environment."
After the coffee cherry has been picked up from the tree, in the carbonic process, the farmers put it in the barrel to separate it from the air and make sure the cheery is fermented in a dioxide-rich environment.
When it comes to this coffee from Gringo Nordic Coffee Roasters, it tasted like "Purple Blueberry, thickness like honey, complex and peach-like acidity".
This was actually the first time to taste coffee processed by Carbonic Process, so this whole experience was so interesting to me.
The online product page is here so if you are looking for something new, then this is the time to experience the whole new world.