Comments on: Fresh Roast ??? Ethiopian Djimmah http://anicecuppa.net/2006/08/15/fresh_roast_ethiopian_djimmah/ Get Your Buzz On Here Thu, 09 Sep 2010 08:35:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Matt http://anicecuppa.net/2006/08/15/fresh_roast_ethiopian_djimmah/#comment-80367 Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:15:13 +0000 http://anicecuppa.net/2006/08/15/fresh_roast_ethiopian_djimmah/#comment-80367 I met a guy from Yirgacheffe and he has lived/breathed and sweat coffee his whole life. Meswein was able to tell me somethings that I never knew, like how tou identify on site the sun dried variety of coffee like Harrar and Djimmah...(Sun Bleaches the beans almost yellow). With this being said He also showed me his Dark roast... It was like most Medium roasts leaning towards a Med-Light.... This is uniform to the way roasting is done in Africa to taste the differences between the fine beans... Now with the comments your friend has made about "all African coffee to tasting like dirt" it sounds like he/she has tried many African coffees that were over roasted. I suggest you Roast nothing past a Full City Roast and brave the Lightest roasts of Yirgacehffe and others such as Sidamo instead of that very Dark well into the second crack phase! I did and it made me stop wasting all my African varieties and start tasting the differences, they are not subtle at the light- med roast curve... Either way the coffee should also be enjoyed to your preferences too, I just wished to share my experience with a true Roaster from YIrgacheffe. I met a guy from Yirgacheffe and he has lived/breathed and sweat coffee his whole life. Meswein was able to tell me somethings that I never knew, like how tou identify on site the sun dried variety of coffee like Harrar and Djimmah…(Sun Bleaches the beans almost yellow). With this being said He also showed me his Dark roast… It was like most Medium roasts leaning towards a Med-Light…. This is uniform to the way roasting is done in Africa to taste the differences between the fine beans… Now with the comments your friend has made about “all African coffee to tasting like dirt” it sounds like he/she has tried many African coffees that were over roasted. I suggest you Roast nothing past a Full City Roast and brave the Lightest roasts of Yirgacehffe and others such as Sidamo instead of that very Dark well into the second crack phase!

I did and it made me stop wasting all my African varieties and start tasting the differences, they are not subtle at the light- med roast curve… Either way the coffee should also be enjoyed to your preferences too, I just wished to share my experience with a true Roaster from YIrgacheffe.

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