*Roast days are Tuesday and Thursday. Order by Monday 12pm EST
for Wednesday shipment or Wednesday 12pm for Friday shipment
*Roast days are Tuesday and Thursday. Order by Monday 12pm EST
for Wednesday shipment or Wednesday 12pm for Friday shipment
Specs
Producers Mulugeta Muntasha & Arbegona Outgrowers
Region Arbegona, Sidama, Ethiopia
Harvest December 2024 - February 2025
Varieties Walega (74158)
Process Anaerobic Natural
Altitude 2,300-2,500 masl
Importer Crop to Cup
Producer Profile
Mulugeta Muntasha grew up in Bursa, where until recently, no coffee was grown, despite being part of the Sidama zone. Mulugeta's first work with coffee was actually as a truck driver in neighbouring Arsi, where he transported cherry from collection sites to a washing station. Through this experience, he became familiar with the coffee business. Eventually, farmers in Bursa began planting coffee, and in 2021 he returned there to open his first drying station: Dawencho, where he produced two top COE lots. In 2022, four of the competition's top lots were processed at his station located next to his farm. This particular lot, is from his Arbegona station, which is supplied by 600 outgrowers who grow coffee at altitudes between 2,300 and 2,500 masl.
*Refer to our Grind & Brew Guide for recipes and grind setting ranges tailored to specific grinders and brewers.
For best results we recommend resting your filter coffee for two to three weeks post-roast before brewing.
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, known locally as Walega 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.
IMPORTER | Crop to Cup |
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. | -- |
FOB PRICING | $8.00 USD per lb |
SUBTEXT PAID | $11.96 USD per lb including "reciprocal" tariff on Ethiopian imports to the US. * This coffee entered the US before being imported to Canada. |
LOT SIZE | Total lot size of 900 kg. Subtext purchaed 60 kg. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Crop to Cup has been working with mulugeta for three years. This is the first yea we have purchased his coffee. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |