Ethiopia Guji Godina SWP Decaf

Cupping Notes:
Delicious brewed coffee, cleanly fruited, and can be roasted light without tasting 'decafy' at all. Notes of Turkish apricot, apple, fruit tea, mandarin orange, with caramelized sugar accents. City to Full City.

Region: Guji Zone
Processing: Dry Process (Natural) & Wet Process (Washed), then Swiss Water Process Decaf
Drying Method: Raised Bed Sun-Dried
Variety: Heirloom Cultivars

Farm Description:
We sent a blend of our great natural and washed Guji coffees to Swiss Water for decaffeination, and the results came back great! Godina Guji is our latest custom Ethiopian decaf blend that we had processed by Swiss Water Decaf in Vancouver, Canada. What makes it, "custom", you might ask? Many of our decafs are pulled from our personal stocks of non-decaf coffees, giving us a unique level of quality control. This means we get to select coffees with flavors we've found will push through the decaffeination process, an ability we've gotten better at over the decade+ we've been working with Swiss. 2/3 of this blend is made up of fruit-forward, dry process coffees, a key ingredient of most of our Ethiopian decafs, and a big part of why they come back tasting so nice. In this case, Guji Godina has convincing origin flavors, fruity, aromatic, and recognizably "Ethiopian". Most of it is from three stations where we've sourced excellent coffees through the years, and that should sound familiar to some, Dogo Sodu, Goro Bedessa, and Gogogu. Swiss Water Decaf use their patented chemical-free, water-decaffeination process to remove 99.9% of the coffee's caffeine content. The technique is gentle on the coffee's organic structure, leaving much of the aromatic compounds that affect flavor and aroma intact.

Description from Coffee Shrub.