Solomon Hameso Boku Natural

All the berries converge in this coffee to create a quintessential natural Ethiopia profile. It’s creamy and sweet-tart with tasting and aroma notes of strawberry blueberry smoothie, red plum, lemon blossom, and pink lady apple. If you love a tried and true classic natural Ethiopia, this berrylicious coffee is for you. 

Farm Level Info. Solomon is a first generation coffee farmer and dry mill owner. Although not certified (which can be costly), his coffee is grown organically without utilizing pesticides, fungicides etc. Solomon feels strongly about giving back to his community and he provides financial support to the elderly people of his community while also supplying high-yield coffee plants to local coffee farmers. 

Natural Process Explained. To start, your roasted coffee bean was originally a green coffee seed growing inside a coffee cherry on coffee trees. The coffee cherry is picked once ripe during harvesting. From there, it is processed in a variety of ways at the farm level (before it ever gets to the roaster.) Most of the coffee we drink is washed processed. In this process, the coffee cherry and mucilage are removed (by a process of de-pulping, fermentation, and washing) from the coffee seed before the coffee is dried. Natural process, conversely, refers to a coffee processing tech­nique where the coffee is laid out to dry with the fruit of the coffee cherry intact (rather than removing the cherry skin and mucilage before drying). This creates a natural fermentation environment for the coffee and can produce very intense fruit and floral notes. If you like intense fruit and floral aromas and tasting notes (in this case think lots of berries), a natural process is a great coffee for you to try.