It's time to reveal our mystery coffee for September! Thank you for your patience through Hurricane Helene.
A haiku to start off this reveal:
H&S cake time
could it be easy as pie?
Time to celebrate
🇪🇹 Ethiopia Banko Taratu
Region: Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia
Variety: Ethiopia Landrace
Processing: Washed
Altitude: 1900-2300 masl (mapped to 2000+)
Tasting notes: Grapefruit, Mandarin, Jasmine
From Coulter at H&S -
Thank you all for a wonderful month of coffee and celebration, and I hope you all enjoyed this... piece of cake! Washed Ethiopia, who could have guessed? The twist here is that this lot was double fermented, adding quite a lot of tartness and bright acidity that may have thrown off some guesses. It also put a lot of the notes very close together, as I personally was tasting lemon-lime, grapefruit, orange (all the citrus), orange blossom, jasmine, (all the green teas) and currants throughout the month. Thank you all once more, and especially to the organizers of MCL for making this all happen! xoxo
About the farm and the coffee:
This lot is named for the town and community which produces it: Banko Taratu, and 500 families in this town contributed to its creation.
Statistics
Now onto the top placers!
In first place with 25 points: hue!
In second place with 23 points: Thomas, NotChet, terebat, and aussz!
In third place with 21 points: Diran, Hao-Yung, newdent, and CaseyK!
Lots of high scores this round!
Thanks to all who guessed! Be sure to guess if you join us for a mystery round. You can buy more H&S here: H&S Coffee Roasters | Specialty coffee crafted in the Rocky Mountains (hscoffeeroasters.com)
Join our Verb round here: Mystery Coffee — Verb Coffee Roasters
