HIGHLAND COLLECTION

Whole Bean Coffee

Process: Anaerobic Natural

Candied Peach, Milk Chocolate, Shortcake

As part of our Highland Collection, this limited release Anaerobic Basha Bekele is an exquisitely juicy and flavorful cup, you'll find notes of candied peach and milk chocolate.

Basha’s father— a community man who with Basha built a church for the community at their site in Bombe—was once a manager for a co-op in Bombe that supplied coffee to the Sidama Union. Before the government made it possible for smallholders to obtain export licenses, both he and his father sold their cherry to the cooperative. Basha now has his own export license and grows coffee (primarily 74158, known locally as “Walega”) in semi-forested plots on 12 hectares in addition to operating collection sites in Bombe, Shantawane, and Kokose—collecting cherry from producers growing coffee as high as 2300 masl. Basha exclusively produces dry processes—which includes experiments with anaerobic styles of fermentation—and practices cherry flotation before drying his coffee slowly on raised beds (with some preparations drying under shade).