This coffee is from the Guji zone of the Oromia region in Ethiopia. It comes from a washing station owned by Abebe Mulugeta Kassa Genete and his son Sisay, located near the town of Gotae Sodu at 2200 meters altitude. Smallholders deliver cherries picked from trees in semi-forested land. The coffee is washed and mechanically de-pulped, then soaked overnight and dried in the sun. The fermentation period ranges from 24-60 hours, followed by approximately 5 hours of soaking before washing. The coffee is dried on raised beds with frequent raking for even moisture distribution. Ethiopia Landrace varieties are grown. The cupping score is 86.
Elevator Coffee was founded in 2016 by Jay Sycip and Andrew Coe in Portland, Oregon. Coe, the head roaster and coffee buyer, won the 2023 U.S. Coffee Roasting Championship and placed third at the World Coffee Roasting Championships in Taipei the same year. The roastery previously operated a cafe in SE Portland until Fall 2020, then pivoted to a wholesale and online model, roasting to order and shipping weekly. A 96 point Coffee Review score ranks it among the top roasters in the Northwest. The ethos is summed up in a tagline: roasted by nerds, not snobs.
