Ethiopia Dooddisi Natural

$ 22.00

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12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

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The Dood abides...

Dooddisi is our final natural Ethiopia of the the 2021 harvest, and we're closing the season with some serious good-ness! This coffee is juicy, fruity, and just hella delicious, with big flavors of blackberry and chocolate cream, with a hibiscus-like florality that only peaks through the fruit in the best of naturals.

The Dood is a new name in the Huck lineup, but not an entirely new coffee. Think of this as an evolution of last year’s Raro Nansebo, with a bit more fine-tuning.

Ture Waji has become a pretty big name in the world of Ethiopian coffee, gaining well-earned notoriety for producing some of the country's best naturals for the last several harvests. Ture and his family - primarily cousins Eegata and Fedhesa - own and operate Sookoo Coffee. Sookoo means gold in the Guji region's Afaan Oromo language, and Sookoo Coffee focuses exclusively on naturals - no washed coffees, just coffee dried in its fruit. And that focus pays off.

Raro Nansebo is Sookoo's second station, and last year we were lucky enough to roast a phenomenal first harvest. After making a name for themselves with the Odo Shakisso station a bit further west in Guji, Sookoo expanded into the Guji Uraga area, building the Raro Nensebo station and working with smallholder farmers in the surrounding area. This past year, Ture and the team at Raro Nansebo took the extra step of separating coffees from individual communities, and after tasting through several of these community-specific lots, this coffee from farmers in Dooddisi village won us over. We tasted and chose Dooddisi blind (without looking at the name, and tasting it alongside a bunch of other coffees), but after the fact, we certainly enjoy the possibility for Lebowski references.

Big fruit is the big draw in most naturals, and the florality we love in washed Ethiopias often gets masked by the berries. In the best cases though - like this gem from Dooddisi and Raro Nansebo - floral aromatics get to join the fruit punch. It’s just, like, our opinion, man, but we think Dooddisi’s a pretty darn good coffee to round out the 2021 harvest.

*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

Pictured: Ture Waji at Raro Nansebo, courtesy Atlantic Specialty Coffee

Collections: All The Coffee, Core Coffees, Single Origin

Burundi Mikuba Honey from $ 23.00

Burundi Mikuba Honey

$ 23.00

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12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

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It kinda makes us feel old to say it, but this is the eighth year in a row that Huckleberry has roasted coffees from the Long Miles Coffee Project in Burundi. We’ve been with Long Miles since their first harvest in 2013, and look forward to new and innovative coffee from the group every year - this our second harvest roasting a delicious Long Miles honey.

Honey-processed coffees lie somewhere between a washed- and natural-process coffee. The outer layer of the coffee is removed (depulped), but rather than washing off the sticky fruit on the outside of the bean, the coffee is dried with this sticky layer, often called either mucilage or honey, still on the seed. In this case, Long Miles added a couple days of oxygen-reduced fermentation between depulping and drying, and the result is one of the most complex honeys we’ve tasted from any origin, and one of the best coffees of any process we've tasted from Long Miles.

The Long Miles Coffee Project was founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, an American couple living in Burundi. Upon seeing the difficulties farmers faced while Ben was working as a coffee trader, the Carlsons built two washing stations in the region, and have worked with area farmers to help them fetch better prices. By working with the farmers to develop stringent quality practices at the farm level, then washing and milling the coffee with meticulous care, Long Miles is able to ensure that the coffee is of the highest quality possible. By working with Huckleberry and other roasters who commit to coffees before they've shipped from Burundi, the Long Miles Coffee Project is able to pay the farmers a higher price for their coffee than they would receive on the open market and from other washing stations.

Mikuba is a specific hill near Long Miles' Heza washing station, and this coffee comes exclusively from the Long Miles farmers living on that hill. This is our first year roasting coffee from Mikuba, but we’re stoked to let another hill shine here at Huck.

Mikuba Honey is bright, sweet, fruity, and complex - we're tasting apricot, date, tangerine, and sweet, subtly-floral honey in our mugs!

Photos of Mikuba Hill and Heza Washing Station courtesy Long Miles Coffee Project.

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Ecuador Bosque de Marfil from $ 22.00

Ecuador Bosque de Marfil

$ 22.00

Size

12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

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Bosque de Marfil is back for its fourth year in the Huck lineup, and we’re excited to brew this one up over the next few months. Black cherry, nougat, macadamia nut and fudge flavors dominate a complex, but sweet and comforting cup.

Bosque de Marfil is the name of a forest in the center of Ecuador’s southernmost Loja province, and the 44 farmers who produce this coffee call this forest home. Sitting high in the Limo mountain range, the bosque provides great shade for coffee production, and abundant natural resources that help these farmers earn secondary income in the months between one coffee harvest and the next.

As is the case with many of our Latin American coffees, we’re excited to source Bosque de Marfil through Caravela Coffee. Caravela helps ensure us dependably great coffees, and provides farmers with access to on-farm assistance plus fair, transparent pricing structures. It’s a win-win, and it makes them one of our favorite partners in Latin America.

As far as the cup goes, it’s a sweet, delicious ride. Cherry cola sweetness, chocolate-molasses sweet-spice, creamy nut notes, and a touch of green apple brightness, with a syrupy body. It’ll hold up to milk just great, and we’ll be brewing it plenty as a single origin espresso, but we’re also jazzed to drink this black - it’s a lively and juicy everyday drinker.

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Ethiopia Geta Bore from $ 21.00

Ethiopia Geta Bore

$ 21.00

Size

12 OZ

2LB

5LB

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We're heading west for our fourth and final washed Ethiopia of the 2021 harvest. While most of our Ethiopian coffees come from Yirgacheffe and Guji in the southern part of the country, coffees from the Kata Muduga Cooperative Union have become some of the most sought-after coffees in Ethiopia over the past few years.

Yukro, Nano Challa, Biftu Gudina, Duromina…these are becoming well-known names in the coffee industry, and we’ve featured some delicious coffee from Nano Challa in the past. Each of these names represents a cooperative in the Kata Muduga Union, a group of cooperatives in Western Ethiopia’s Jimma Zone. Add Geta Bore to the list. Geta Bore is a new cooperative under the Kata Muduga umbrella, formed by farmers who used to be members of Biftu Gudina, but who wanted to build a washing station close to their homes. These farmers formed Geta Bore in 2018, and it was our favorite Kata Muduga coffee this year.

Geta Bore is brand new, but in the scheme of things, Kata Muduga is one of the newest cooperative unions in Ethiopia, too, born out of a joint development project from USAID and Technoserve in the early 2000s. With coffee fairly well-developed (or at least well-known) in Southern Ethiopia, USAID and Technoserve built several washing stations in Western Ethiopia, with the hopes of building up the coffee industry in different parts of the country. Technoserve also encouraged processing techniques and equipment that uses far less water than the typical washed techniques in Ethiopia, and the new washing stations are known for both water conservation and quality.

Cooperatives, including Nano Challa, Yukro, and Duromina, and now Geta Bore, formed around these washing stations, and quickly began producing coffees that rivaled the best from Yirgacheffe. While these co-ops started as part of the Oromia Union, a few years ago a handful of them branched out to form Kata Muduga. We've featured lots from Yukro in Phantom Limb, Nano Challa as a single origin last year, and now, Geta Bore.

Huck’s first coffee from Geta Bore pops - this is definitely a coffee driven by bright citrus. We're tasting juicy clementine and key lime, balanced with honeydew melon and a green tea-like florality. A great endcap to our 2020 washed Ethiopias, and a great reason for us to roast up some delicious coffee from Jimma.

📸: Geta Bore Washing Station, courtesy Crop to Cup Coffee Importers

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