Ethiopia Chelelektu

About This Coffee

This fully washed coffee comes from the Chelelektu Washing Station in Kochere, where more than 650 smallholder farmers working plots of less than two hectares deliver carefully harvested cherry. After sorting and pulping, the coffee ferments for 36 to 48 hours before being thoroughly washed, density-graded, and slowly dried on raised beds for up to two weeks. The farms are located at elevations reaching up to 2,200 meters, with an altitude range of 1,900 to 2,200 meters above sea level. The coffee features heirloom varieties and offers flavor notes of white peach, honey, and lemon.

Origin

Kochere (Ethiopia)

Flavor Notes

Lemon, Honey, White Peach

Roast Level

Medium Light

Processing

Washed

Typology

Arabica

Heirloom

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Tony's Coffee

Tony Campbell founded Tony's Coffee in 1971 in Bellingham, Washington's historic Fairhaven district, roasting on an old nut roaster and selling coffee alongside spices and staples. The Elliott family acquired the business in the mid 1980s, and CEO Todd Elliott has led the company since 2000. Tony's became one of the first U.S. roasters to source organic, fair trade, shade grown coffee from farmer owned cooperatives in 2002, and installed a Loring roaster in 2019 to reduce its carbon footprint by over 40 percent. The company achieved 100 percent carbon neutral status for roastery operations and delivery in 2020, with a goal of becoming historically carbon neutral by 2030, offsetting all emissions back to 1971. Roast Magazine named Tony's its 2021 Macro Roaster of the Year. The roastery now produces roughly 1.1 million pounds of coffee annually.

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