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01 · The Forest

Before anyone owned it.

Lot

22:22 · AUH · 2027 · 01

The house's method

Pour-over · ground medium-fine just before · water at 94°C · 1:16

Origin

Hamasho Village, Bensa, Sidama, Ethiopia

Producer

Daye Bensa, Asefa Dukamo and smallholder farmers

Variety · process

74158 · washed

House score

89+

Notes

Lemongrass · pear · white florals · sugarcane · papaya

Arabica grows wild in one place on earth: The highland forests of southwestern Ethiopia, in the shade of taller trees. Nobody planted it. This variety carries a number rather than a name because the research institute catalogued it as it found it, growing, and propagated it unchanged. Washed, so nothing is added. It will barely taste like coffee — lemongrass, white flowers, closer to tea. Everything after this cup is a departure from it.