Guji – Ethiopia
Our new seasonal roast is here! Rooted in coffee’s origin story, this heirloom roast captures its wild, organic origins. With just the right mix of sweetness and citrus, this coffee is the perfect way to start your day.
Flavour profile
Aroma: Tropical fruit, caramel
Taste: Cocoa, dried fruit, sweet
Mouth Feel: Creamy, full-bodied
Finish: Sweet
Simply Legendary
Our Guji-Ethiopia comes to us from the special growing area that coffee originated, you can not get closer the original coffee in its purest form – heirloom, wild and organic. This coffee is hand picked when each cherry is perfectly ripe and uses traditional raised beds to dry the beans. Guji will be sparkling and bright on your tongue with light cocoa and dried fruit notes finishing with a sweet an explosion of exciting and unique flavors. This one is special!
Community
This farm employs members of its community, paying higher-than-average wages to their pickers to incentivize them to return year after year. It also offers free transportation services to their employees as well as financial support for building schools and administration buildings for their community!
Real Sustainability in Action!
One of the most recent and notable milestones for Todos al Agua, Anserma is the cooperative’s new Ecological Community Wet Mill.
With the community of Anserma now saving more than 10 million liters of water per year, the project has proven its ability to deliver real results and measurable impact.
Tradition & Quality
Ethiopia is famous as coffee’s birthplace. Our Guji coffee is an heirloom varietal that is as close to the true wild coffee that started it all. Coffee is almost entirely cultivated, harvested, and dried by hand.
After selective handpicking, the cherries are sorted so only the best, ripest cherries are dried. The cherries are naturally dried on tradition African raised beds that are turned every 20 to 30 minutes to promote even drying.
Sustainability
The farm has a plant nursery on-site and utilizes the shade of acacia and other indigenous trees to protect the coffee as well as for creating compost for natural fertilization.
The Legend of the Dancing Goat
This coffee pays homage to coffee’s origin – and the legend of the first person to taste coffee.
Over a thousand years ago, a goat herder noticed his goats hadn’t returned for the evening. He set out to find them, and discovered them dancing around a bush – a coffee plant. The herder tasted the cherries that the goats had been eating, tasting coffee for the first time. He also found his fatigue had vanished, and as legend has it, was soon dancing in the moonlight as well.
From these humble beginnings, coffee spread and became one of the world’s most popular beverages.