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Chelbesa Danche
Specs
Producers SNAP & Smallholders of Chelbesa
Station Danche Station
Region Chelbesa, Gedeb, Gedeo, Ethiopia
Harvest December 2024 - January 2025
Varieties Kurume & Wolisho
Process Yellow Honey
Altitude 2,200 masl
Importer The Coffee Quest
Chelbesa Danche
Producer Profile
In January of this year, we had the opportunity to travel to Gedeb, Ethiopia where we spent a few days with SNAP coffee and visited a number of their stations in the region. Among those stations was Chelbesa Danche, located in the Chelbesa Kebele. About 800 producers deliver cherry—primarily Kurume and Wolisho varieties—to this station, where processing is overseen by Frew, the Special Prep Coordinator and Yirgacheffe Operations Manager. They produce a number of different processes at Danche, but this particular lot is an excellent Yellow Honey. For this process, the cherries were de-pulped and left to dry-ferment for 2 days before being moved to raised beds where they were regularaly turned over for two weeks to ensure even drying.
Brewing Chelbesa Danche Yellow Honey
Recommended Use: FILTER
Where to Grind: Start at a coarse setting within our recommended grind range*
*Refer to our Grind & Brew Guide for recipes and grind setting ranges tailored to specific grinders and brewers.
Gedeb
Gedeb is one of four coffee growinf woredas (districts) in the Gedeo zone, which also includes the famous Yirgacheffe woreda. As in other Ethiopian regions, farm sizes here are very small, and they are planted mostly with JARC varieties.
Kurume & Wolisho
Kurume & Wolisho are JARC (Jimma Agricultural Research Centre) varieties. JARC developed these varieties in response to a devastating wave of Coffee Berry Disease (CBD) in the 1960s. These varieties were bred to be resistant to CBD.
Washed
For Danche's Yellow Honey process, the cherries were de-pulped and left to dry-ferment for 2 days before being moved to raised beds where they were regularaly turned over for two weeks to ensure even 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. | 96 ETB per kg of cherry |
FOB PRICING | $4.60 USD per lb |
SUBTEXT PAID | $7.35 USD per lb including $0.65 USD per lb "reciprocal" tariff placed on Ethiopian imports. * This coffee entered the US before being imported into Canada. |
LOT SIZE | Subtext purchased 180 kg of Chelbesa Danche Yellow Honey. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Quest has been working with SNAP for two years. This is the third year we have purchased coffee from SNAP. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |