$44.95
The Chemex coffeemaker is an elegant, one-piece vessel made of high quality, heat-resistant glass. This simple, reliable method of making coffee yields a full-flavored, clean-tasting brew using Chemex filters (sold separately).
6-cup capacity: 30oz
$23.50 $79.00
TASTING NOTES: Floral aromas lead to notes of raspberry, lavender, and lemon with a delicate body.
ROAST LEVEL: Light
COUNTRY: Ethiopia
REGION: Banko Chelchele Kabele, Gedeb Woreda
GROWER: Smallholder farmers organized organized around the Banko Chelchele washing station
ELEVATION: 1900-2100masl
PROCESS: Washed
OTHER: Traceable, Single Origin
FARM INFO
The municipality of Gedeb is a bustling outpost that links commerce between the Guji Zone and Gedeo Zones, with an expansive network of processing stations who buy cherry from across zone borders. Coffees from this community, much closer to Guji Zone than the rest of Yirgacheffe, are often the most explosive cup profiles from anywhere in Ethiopia. Fully washed lots are often sparklingly clean and fruit candy-like in structure.
The communities surrounding Gedeb reach some of the highest growing elevations for coffee in the world. Banko Chelchele is one of the communities east of Gedeb, part of a greater area known as “Worka”. This dense corner of Gedeb includes farmers that are cooperative-affiliated, as well as independent washing stations of various types, many of which are simply named “Chelchele”.
396 local farmers contribute cherry to Worka Chelchele. The washing station was built in 2021, on 2.5 hectares of land with 12 fermentation tanks and over 250 raised beds for drying. Washed coffees at Worka Chelchele are depulped and fermented for 48 hours, washed clean with fresh water, soaked again in fresh water, and dried on raised beds for an average of 18 days.
Worka Chelchele, as well as the entire export chain for this coffee, is owned by Tadesse Desta Import & Export, a small but modernized coffee logistics company. They use electronic color sorters at their small dry mill in Addis, and are currently in the middle of their organic and RFA certification processes, which they expect to have in place next year. Worka Chelchele is their main processing source for the best coffees they export.
Origin photo by Royal Coffee
$24.75 $70.00
WE TASTE: This special regenerative coffee has notes of brown sugar, berries, and orange with hints of cacao nibs.
COUNTRY: Colombia
PRODUCER: ASOTBILBAO
REGION: Planadas, Tolima
ELEVATION: 1450 masl
PROCESS: Washed
OTHER: Traceable, organic farm, regenerative farm
FARM INFO
This Regenerative coffee is sourced from family-owned farms organized around ASOTBILBAO, a producer association with 50 members who live in Bilbao within the municipality of Planadas in the department of Tolima. Members of ASOTBILBAO are graduates of Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje SENA. SENA is a non-governmental educational institution that provides social and technical education to its participants. The average age of members of ASOTBILBAO is 35 years old and in collaboration with an exporting company called Mastercol, coordinate efforts to improve the quality of coffee including technical support to guide coffee farmers on the best agricultural practices for quality coffee production and wither investments in projects focused on the improvement of coffee farm infrastructure.
For many years Tolima has remained hidden in plain sight between other well-known coffee growing regions because armed conflict and coca leaf production isolated small coffee producers and exposed them to high rates of violence. As conflict has subsided in recent years, locally organized associations have taken the lead in creating market access for their coffee. Strategies like certifications have dominated this region's ability to differentiate coffee in a competitive market. It’s no surprise that Tolima’s associations have taken the lead on regenerative practices, the newest of the certification trends in coffee.
Origin photos by Royal Coffee
$21.50 $70.00
WE TASTE: Aromas of malt and dates in the nose leads to a smooth cup packed with cocoa, raisins and molasses
Sourced from the lush highlands of Peru, Cooperativa AGraria Amoju’s Rainforest Alliance coffee represents the perfect harmony between sustainability and exceptional quality. This coffee is cultivated by smallholder farmers dedicated to eco-friendly practices and the preservation of their rainforest environment.
Rainforest Alliance certification ensures that the coffee is produced in ways to protect biodiversity, support local communities, and promote sustainable livelihoods. Combined with organic farming methods, these efforts result in a product that is as kind to the earth as it is to your palate.
