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Chelbesa Danche
Specs
Producers SNAP & Smallholders of Chelbesa
Station Chelbesa Danche
Region Chelbesa, Gedeb, Gedeo, Ethiopia
Harvest Winter '24-'25
Varieties Kurume & Wolisho
Process Washed
Altitude 2,200 masl
Importer Quest
Chelbesa Danche
Producer Profile
In January of last 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. This particular coffee is a washed lot, that underwent 96 hours of dry fermentation prior to washing and drying.
Brewing Chelbesa Danche
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.
For best results we recommend resting your filter coffee for two to three weeks post-roast before brewing.
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
Once cherries arrived at the Station, they are placed in water for sorting and removing floaters. Cherries are then de-pulped, dry-fermented for 96 hours and washed to remove the mucilage. The parchment is then laid out to dry on raised beds for 12- 14 days.
Transparency
IMPORTER | 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 | $7.10 USD per lb plus 10% USD per lb "reciprocal" tariff placed on Ethiopian imports. * This coffee entered the US before being imported into Canada. |
LOT SIZE | Subtext purchased 240kg of Chelbesa Danche Washed. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Quest has been working with SNAP for two years and this is the third year we have purchased coffee from SNAP |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 86.5 |