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Karamo Adara
Specs
Producers Daye Bensa & Smallholders of Karamo
Station Karamo Adara
Region Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia
Harvest December 2024 - February 2025
Varieties Local Landraces
Process Washed
Altitude 2,200-2,300 masl
Importer The Coffee Quest
Karamo Adara
Producer Profile
This is now our third year bringing in coffee from Karamo Adara station in Bensa, Sidama, and we finally had the pleasure of seeing the station itself in January. We continue to be amazed by the quality produced at these elevations which reach 2,300 masl. Approximately 1,500 producers contribute their coffee cherries to the station, primarily cultivating JARC 74158 alongside other indigenous varieties. The remarkable elevation results in exceptionaly dense beans with a high concentration of smaller screen sizes. The station's excellence is well-documented: Karamo Adara has earned Daye Bensa Cup of Excellence awards for three consecutive years (2020-2022).
Brewing Karamo Adara
Recommended Use: Espresso
Recipe:
Grind: Start at the coarser end of where you grind Subtext coffees for espresso.
Dose: 18g
Yield: 47g
Time: 32s
For best results we recommend resting your espresso for three weeks post-roast before brewing.
Sidama
Arbegona Woreda is part of the famous Sidama zone, where many of our favourite Ethiopian coffees are grown. Coffee is the main cash crop in Arbegona, where it benefits from very high altitudes and a favourable micro-climate.
74158
74158 is one of six selections that were approved for release in 1974 as part of a CBD-resistance (Coffee Berry Disease) selection program. During the 1970's, researchers from the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre searched the forests in the Illuababora zone for CBD-resistant mother trees. Today 74158 is heavily propagated in South Western Ethiopia, and is one of two dominant varieties in Bensa, along with 74112.
Washed
The Washed Karamo Adara is traditionally wet fermented for between 36 and 72 hours, and then dried on African beds for about 12 to 15 days, until the coffee reaches approximately 10% moisture. During peak sun, the beds are covered to prevent over drying
Transparency
IMPORTER | The Coffee Quest |
FARMGATE PRICINGWhat's this?FOB: "Freight on board," usually the price paid to the coffee exporter for coffee ready to ship. This includes price paid to the producer as well as milling, warehousing and transportation costs plus any intermediaries' fees and export costs. Farmgate: the price paid by the exporter or other buyer to the producer or producer organization. | 136 ETB per kg of cherry |
FOB PRICING | $9.00 USD per lb |
SUBTEXT PAID | $13.20 USD per lb including 10% "reciprocal" tariff on Ethiopian imports to the US. * This coffee entered the US before being imported to Canada. |
LOT SIZE | Subtext purchaed 120 kg. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Quest has been working withDaye Bensa for five years and this is the fifth year we have purchased their coffee. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |