BREWmantic – Valentines Coffee

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter or cafetiere.

Head over to our brew guides for making coffee for more info.

This coffee comes from Halo Shashemene, a village in the Gedeb district of Ethiopia.  This region, which is part of the Gedeo zone in the southeast of the country, is widely recognised for producing some of the very best coffees in the area.

The 5-hectare farm that produced this coffee is owned by Aragash Gelcha, who grows coffee alongside false banana and fruit trees to feed her family of 12 children (six daughters and six sons).

When Ethiopia’s coffee export rules were updated in 2018, allowing smallholders to directly export their coffee, Aragash still encountered systemic and logistical barriers, but has not been deterred. Despite the difficulties, Aragash and her family continue to produce an average of 800 kg of green coffee per hectare.

During the off-season, the work doesn’t stop, as the family work together to apply best agronomic practices to ensure the sustainability and overall health of the farm.

Take a peek at your fresh coffee’s cup score (it’s the one out of 100). Is it below 80? Then it’s a commodity coffee. 80 points or above? Then you’ve got yourself a bag of super-delicious, entirely defect-free speciality coffee!

Speciality coffee is the coffee crème de la crème. The top dog. The best of the bunch. It’s cherries are picked by hand at perfect ripeness, it’s flavours are interesting and naturally sweet… it’s the only coffee your mug deserves!

But, watch out. Don’t choose your coffee based solely on its cup score. Remember – this mark is only the opinion of the Q Graders who cupped that coffee. A lower-scoring coffee might taste less avant-garde, but its flavour profile might be just what you’re after! Play around, try different tastes, and go with the coffee you prefer!

Each coffee in our Two Chimps range sits in the 80-90 points range. We tend to avoid coffees with scores in the high 90s, as this often indicates a very, very rare coffee rather than one we know you’ll love!

We never ‘over roast’ our coffees. Not ever. Instead, we use the roasting process to show off all the natural flavours and aromas within your coffee.

Big-name commodity roasters often use the roasting process to mask undesirable flavours in low-quality beans. Overroasting (when coffee is roasted too dark) gives the coffee a bitter and burnt taste. So, essentially, they are replacing foul tastes with bad ones. Not what you want, is it?

We only source high-quality speciality coffee here at Two Chimps. Our premium green beans have nothing bad to hide – just lots of delicious, naturally sweet flavour! We roast gently to put all these flavours in the spotlight and bring you coffee that’s lusciously sweet and perfectly flavourful!

The coffee farmers put everything into producing an outstanding product for us. It’s only fair we do the same for you, right?

Roast Style: Light and Fruity

Location: Gedeb, Gedeo

Varietal(s): 74110, Kurume

Processing: Natural

Altitude: 2,150 metres above sea level

Country: Ethiopia

Certification: Specialty

Producer: Aragash Gelcha

Score: 87.75

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Thinking of popping a bag in your basket? Do – it’ll be the best thing you do all day! Because when you choose Two Chimps, you are supporting small coffee farmers and producers across the globe. We mean it! Check this out:

• Ethically sourced beans via a short supply chain (tick)
• Supporting a small carbon-neutral business (tick)
• Making sure the farmers get paid 30 – 150% more than commodity coffee (tick)
• Helping programmes that are improving the coffee industry (tick)

You see! Keep doing what you’re doing, coffee lover. You really are awesome.

You’ve heard of a bromance, well what about that feeling when you fall in love with your brew? That warm, fuzzy feeling inside is definitely a BREWmance and given that it’s Valentine’s Day we’re getting all BREWmantic.