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Basha Bekele Bombe
Specs
Producers Smalholders of Bombe
Station Basha Bekele's Bombe
Region Bombe, Sidama, Ethiopia
Harvest December 2024 - February 2025
Varieties Walega (74158)
Process Natural
Altitude 2,150 masl
Importer Crop to Crop
Basha Bekele Bombe
Producer Profile
This natural Walega variety comes from Cup of Excellence Champion Basha Bekele and 100 registered out-growers from Bombe in Sidama. This is now our second year buying coffee from Basha. Once the ECX was liberalized, Basha obtained his own export license and now grows coffee (primarily 74158, known locally as "Walega") on 12 hectares of semi-forested plots. While cherry prices were high this year, Basha maintained an uncommon practice in Ethiopia: delivering a second payment to the producers he bought cherry from once the coffee was sold. Currently, Basha exclusively produces dry-processed coffee—including some white honeys and anaerobics— and practices cherry floatation, before slowly drying all his lots on raised beds.
Brewing Basha Bekele Bombe
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.
Sidama
Bombe is part of the famous Sidama zone, where many of our favourite Ethiopian coffees are grown. Coffee is the main cash crop ithere, 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.
Natural
Cherry is collected, floated, then dried for approximately 18 days in the sun on raised beds.
Transparency
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 | $6.00 USD per lb |
SUBTEXT PAID | $9.30 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 | Total lot size of 5,000 kg. Subtext purchaed 120 kg. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Crop to Cup has been working with Basha since 2023 and this is the second year we have purchased his coffee. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |