Suke Quto - Espresso from Ethiopia

Unfortunately, this coffee is sold out, but we are planning to have it back with us for the next harvest.

Floral aromas, notes of stone fruits and melons - this combination practically screams "Ethiopia". Few wet mills in Ethiopia deliver such consistently high quality year after year as Suke Quto. This year we decided on the dry-processed coffee, which welcomes spring and brings wildflower meadows into your cup.

Roasted for espresso, cappuccino

Suke Quto - Green Coffee Information

Origin: Ethiopia, Guji, Shakisso Woreda

Producers: Suke Quto Farm Members (287 producers), organically produced

Varieties: Kurume, Welicho

Post-harvest process: dry (natural)

Arrived at the roastery: March 2023

How we would prepare the Suke Quto for you

Tell me more about Suke Quto

This story has two main characters - Tesfaye Bekele, the founder of Suke Quto Farm; and Trabocca, one of the most innovative green coffee importers for coffee from Ethiopia. Tesfaye Bekele founded Suke Quto Farm in 1999 to prove to the people in the region that good coffee can be an alternative to subsistence farming. Trabocca has been working intensively with Tesfaye since 2009 and is his biggest customer. A logical step was then the introduction of a living income - meaning paying a salary to the producers that not only ensures their survival but also enables them to save. But how can Tesfaye and Trabocca prove this? With a blockchain. Every transfer of the coffee is recorded by barcode and leaves a digital fingerprint on a chain that can be viewed here.

Why did we purchase this coffee?

Because we were convinced by the coffee's sensory profile, and because Tesfaye Bekele is a pioneer. To this day, Suke Quto Farm is a guarantee of consistently high quality. In addition, the partnership between Trabocca and Suke Quto has existed for so many years, and both are setting a sign that long-term partnerships in the coffee sector simply pay off.

Why does this coffee taste the way it does?

The Suke Quto Natural surprised us because, unlike few Ethiopian naturals, it brings together this combination of floral notes, stone fruit and melon aromas all at once. All this with a silky texture and a refined acidity. The floral notes and stone fruit aromas are inherent to the green coffee, which we know from the washed coffees from Suke Quto. The varieties likely play the largest role here. The ripe fruits, we taste melons, come about through dry processing.

How do we roast this coffee?

As a 20kg batch on our 30kg roaster. We roast the coffee at 12:50 and develop it for 1:35 minutes (12.4 %). After eight minutes we gradually reduce the energy before we completely reduce the gas after 1 minute into the development time. In this roast, we emphasize fruity and floral notes and limit the extended development.

Shipping also available as Coffee Letter

All of our coffees can be ordered in the form of a Coffee Letter. This reduces the shipping cost for 250g coffee from CHF 7 to CHF 2. It is treated like a regular letter and lands in your mailbox.

At checkout, you can choose between the options Coffee Letter, A-Post, and B-Post.