Ethiopia Urabeast Super Natural إثيوبيا أورابيست مجففة

The Urabeast location was founded in 2017, taking the name from ‘Uraga’ the area where the coffee is from, and ‘beast’ to reflect the energy and resilience of coffee.

100% organic, though not certified, as farmers simply don’t have the money to apply chemical fertilisers, pesticides, or herbicides. Primrose ensures that there are agricultural officers who work closely with each farmer to ensure the fertility of the farmland. In fact, soon the wet mill and surrounding farmers will also be RFA and UTZ certified.

Primrose pays more than the market price for a kilogram of red cherry, and those farmers that bring quality red cherry are paid a cash incentive, ensuring higher-than-average overall quality.

Coffee is selectively hand-picked before being delivered to the mill collection points, usually within 5 km of the producers’ homes. Great care is taken upon delivery to separate out any overripe, underripe or damaged beans before consolidating with other lots for the road to the wet.

This specific lot underwent the Supernatural NT3 Raisin process which begins with ripe cherries being carefully harvested and sorted to maintain quality. Once at the mill, the cherries are sorted and evenly distributed on raised beds to undergo a fermentation. This is done by distributing the coffee in three layers with average distribution of 90Kg/m2. This allows for moderate fermentation to occur in the layers. After fermentation, the coffee is raked evenly and left to dry under the open sun for 19 – 20 days. Moisture levels are constantly checked to ensure an even drying of the coffee. Once the desired moisture content is reached, the coffee is collected and sent to the dry mill. The dry mill is located in the capital city of Addis Ababa where the coffee is cleaned to remove foreign matter and prepared for hulling. Exterior parchment and silver skin are removed with the assistance of a huller and polisher. The coffee is then sent through a grader to separate coffee by screen size and a gravity separator removes all broken coffee pieces to ensure quality.