Ethiopia, Arsosala (Washed)

This was one of our Top 5 coffees form 2025. Its back again for a 2nd year.

Taste Profile: Dried stone fruit, fresh berry flavors, dried bergamot and lavender with a soft mouthfeel, and mellow tangy acidity.

Washing Station	Arsosala
Process	Washed
Variety	Heirloom Ethiopian Varieties
Elevation	1800-1900 MASL
Region	Guji
Country	Ethiopia
Harvest	November - January

Taster pack:100g

Kraft bag: 250g

Eco cans:240g

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Farm level story

Arsosala is a washing station founded in 2015 that currently serves about 1,200 smallholder producers in the Uraga woreda of Guji. Coffees are picked ripe and depulped the same day, then fermented overnight before being washed clean and dried on raised beds. It typically takes the coffee 8–15 days to dry under sun and 15–20 days to dry when there are cloudy skies.

Coffees in Ethiopia are typically grown on very small plots of land by farmers who also grow other crops. The majority of smallholders will deliver their coffee in cherry to a nearby washing station or central processing unit, where their coffee will be sorted, weighed, and paid for or given a receipt. Coffee is then processed, usually washed or natural, by the washing station and dried on raised beds.

The washing stations serve as many as several hundred to sometimes a thousand or more producers, who deliver cherry throughout the harvest season: The blending of these cherries into day lots makes it virtually impossible under normal circumstances to know precisely whose coffee winds up in which bags on what day, making traceability to the producer difficult. We do, however, make every available effort to source coffee from the same washing stations every year, through our export partners and their connections with mills and washing stations.

Typically, farmers in this region don't have access to and therefore do not utilize fertilizers or pesticides in the production of coffee. 

Sourced by Cafe Imports Europe.

Brewing

Roasted for filter.

Reviews

"We have been Club members for only 1 year but this coffee my husband and I really enjoyed together"- Mari