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Hamasho
Specs
Producers Daye Bensa & Smallholders of Hamasho
Station Hamasho
Region Hamasho, Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia
Harvest December 2024 - February 2025
Varieties Local Landraces - Primarily Walega (74158)
Process Honey
Altitude 1,920-2,200 masl
Importer The Coffee Quest
Hamasho
Producer Profile
We're very excited to bring back coffee from Hamasho this season after missing it last year. This time, we selected this brilliant honey-processed lot. Hamasho Station is located in the Hamasho kebele (village), Bensa, Sidama. It is operated by Asefa Dukamo Korma, the owner of the famous Daye Bensa. The station sits at 1,920-2,200 masl and receives cherry deliveries from about 600 smallholders that live around Hamasho. Most of the cherry is of the Walega (74158) variety. The microclimate in Hamasho is perfect for coffee growing with warm days and cool nights and high elevations that allow for slow cherry maturation. This results in high concentrations of dense beans and smaller screen sizes.
Brewing Hamasho
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.
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.
Honey
Hand-picked and then floated to remove defects. Coffee is dried on raised beds for 10-14 days depending on the weather.
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. | 134 ETB per kg of cherry |
FOB PRICING | $6.00 USD per lb |
SUBTEXT PAID | $8.20 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 | Total lot size of 1,800 kg. Subtext purchaed 240 kg. |
RELATIONSHIP LENGTH | Quest has been working with Daye Bensa for five years and this is the fifth year we have purchased their coffee. |
QUALITY | Subtext cupping score of 87 |