Ethiopia | Kolla Bolcha | Washed

Taste Notes - Cola, Candied Ginger, Dark Cherry

Building on the wider history of Agaro, where an investment by USAID’s Technoserve project helped bring brand-new processing equipment to this previously underserved and undifferentiated region, Kolla Bolcha’s immaculate processing leads to an incredible showcase of the coffee’s natural potential.

The secret? After Penagos processing equipment mechanically removes most of the fruit and mucilage from the seeds, they soak overnight in fiberglass tanks, allowing any remaining sugars to be fully removed from their surface so that the coffees are perfectly clean by the time they hit the drying beds for the eight-plus days they’ll need to dry.

This coffee shines with bright notes of candies ginger and cola . Sweetness is abundant and cherry like. Mouthfeel is syrupy with a lingering, coating after-taste.