Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Haro Soresa

It is being marketed and officially labeled as a Yirgacheffe, but in truth, it is geographically closer to Sidamo or Guji and doesn't share many attributes with a Yirgacheffe. This is a fairly new collaboration of farmers who are working hard to produce really great coffee. The co-op name is QICHA and the mill is Haro Soresa, and the members of the co-op own their own land and are trying to do things the right way. This is a natural (dry) process coffee and so we are roasting it lightly -- barely even out of the 1st cracks. We can get away with that because the coffee is less acidic and has a thicker body than you would expect in a natural Ethiopian. It doesn't seem to matter if you roast it slow or too fast or if you air roast it or drum roast it. It doesn't matter if you get it a few degrees too dark. It's just good coffee. There isn't much not to like about this coffee. First of all, even though its grade 2, it doesn't have apparent defects. Really nice quality here and roasts up ev