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The Enthusiast

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The Enthusiast:
This is one of our most popular subscriptions. The Enthusiast was created for people who have a palate and appreciation for specialty coffee. In other words, if you have experience with coffee and own a V60, Aeropress or Bee House then The Enthusiast is a perfect light roast coffee subscription for you. We work to find the freshest and highest quality coffee farms from across the globe. Basically, our goal is to source coffees that were just harvested so you can experience the freshest possible coffee. Then, once received we roast to order and ship right away. In effect, sourcing high quality coffee allows us to create a light roast coffee subscription with variety and nuance. Also, we tend to source coffees in this tier from Fair Trade co-ops as a way to support sustainable production of delicious coffee. Consequently, Marcus (one of our founders and lead roaster) prefers to bounce between this coffee and The Collector as his personal favorites.
Features:
  • Coffee subscription billed at your chosen frequency and easily update as needed
  • More complexity and nuanced flavors
  • More variety in origin
  • Beans change every other month – view the current farm information here
  • African, Central and South American Origins
  • Certified FTO, RA, or otherwise higher standard micro-lots
  • Specialty coffees purchased up to 400% over index
  • Light roast coffee subscription ranging from City through Full City (Light to Medium)* – learn more about roasting here

*We roast our beans to preserve and compliment the flavors of origin. There will always be a bit of variety in our roasts in our continuing attempt to express the best that each bean has to offer. You can always expect a lighter roast that features clean, smooth and easy to drink roasts.

“How many bags will I need per month?” By our calculations, one person who drinks one cup per day will go through about two bags per month.

Additional information

Weight 12 oz
Current Coffee

– ETHIOPIA – LIMU SEKA –

ABOUT THIS COFFEE

This is a smallholder-grown coffee processed centrally by Fahem General Trading PLC, an independent specialty exporter operating in Limu Seka, a small agricultural area at the top of the Jimma zone, southeast of Addis Ababa. Generally considered part of Ethiopia’s “western” coffee area, Jimma sits next to the Keffa zone, in whose high altitude forests arabica coffee is believed to have first evolved.  

Jimma Zone  

Jimma zone sits southwest of Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa. Like much of coffee-growing Ethiopia, Jimma is a broad, sloping plateau of indescribable fertility and drastically high elevations. The best coffees of Jimma, from the Limu, Gera and Goma districts in particular, are known for being snappy with sweet and delicate fruit flavors. The area’s “white” honey, foraged by bees from coffee and forest blossoms, is another famous Jimma icon, and an utter sensory delight. Coffees from this zone, along with those from neighboring Illubabor, are commonly referred to as “Limu”, which is not a geographical indicator itself but more of a terroir distinction encapsulating common cup profiles from this part of the country.  

Fahem General Trading PLC and processing  

Ato Mohamed Lalo is the founder of Fahem General Trading PLC and is very involved in Ethiopia’s specialty industry, along with his wife, who co-runs the couple’s private coffee estate in Limu Seka. Like a lot of private estates, they make the most of their processing capacity by buying cherry from surrounding smallholders—in this case almost 3,000 of them—to use the estate like a washing station, processing centrally and selling the coffee separately from farm’s.  

Fully washed coffee is produced by intaking cherry from registered smallholders daily at Fahem’s collection sites in the area. The coffee is weighed and transported to the estate where it is immediately depulped and fermented underwater for an average of 12 hours, then soaked in fresh water for another 12 hours, and finally washed and spread across raised screen beds to dry. Drying takes 7-10 days, after which the parchment coffee is bagged and moved into a ventilated warehouse for longer term storage.  

Fahem consists of over 500 staff during harvest months, including all farm work, certification, training for farmers, marketing for their international sales (and local roasted brand), and apiary management. A portion of the company’s profit is annually reinvested in the local community, including schools, grain mills, pruning tools for smallholders, a local bridge, and expanding the national electric grid.  

SPECS:

GEOGRAPHY
Region: Limu Seka district, Jimma zone, Oromia region, Ethiopia
Altitude: 1900 MASL
Harvest: October – December

PRODUCER
Smallholder farmers organized around Fahem General Trading PLC

VARIETY
Indigenous landraces and heirloom cultivars

PROCESSING
Washed

NOTES:
FLAVOR Peach, lemon, cocoa
BODY Light
ACIDITY Bright

ROAST LEVEL
Medium-light – City
Size

12 oz bag, 5 lb bag

1 review for The Enthusiast

  1. Baylie Symms (verified owner) –

    I loved it. I’m sad I still have to get through a bag of grocery store coffee. This is way better

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