The Lexington - Ethiopia - Grade 1 Heirloom

The Battle of Lexington...where it all began.  This is when the infamous Paul Revere, and a couple other brave Patriots, made their midnight ride to warn the people around Lexington that the British were indeed coming.  Try out this Kayon Mountain Natural.  It will light up your day, like the hearts of Patriots that night, and the church tower they lit up to signal to prepare for battle!

Ethiopia...the birthplace of coffee.  Lemme tell you a story.  Back in the 9th century, Kaldi, a goat farmer had a bunch of goats.  Kaldi couldn’t figure out why his goats refused to sleep and why they were always so wound up.  Then they got caught red hooved eating the cherries of a shrub.  The coffee shrub.  Kaldi takes this info to the monks.  The monks start using these seeds to stay awake for evening prayer.  Bam! Coffee is a thing!  So the legend goes.

This particular Ethiopia is from the Yirgacheffe region and we source it from Cafe Imports. It is a Washed Processed coffee, meaning the coffee seeds depulped and washed before laying on raised beds to dry.  This is a quality, clean, amazing coffee.  We are excited to offer it and hope you love it as much as we do!

This is a Grade 1 natural processed coffee from the Kayon Mountain farm located in the Guji zone of Ethiopia's Shakiso district. The Kayon Mountain Farm, owned by Esmael Hassen, harvests about 300 hectares of its 500 hectare farm and uses its own wet and dry mills for processing.

Halo Beriti Washing Station was established in 2014 and serves 750 smallholder producers, who deliver their coffee in cherry form. This particular lot is part of a "special preparation" in which hand-sorting was done repeatedly throughout.

Elevation ranges from 2100 to 2300 meters above sea level (masl) and variety is entirely Ethiopian Heirloom.

Tasting notes: golden raisin, fresh nectarine, fresh apricot, fresh peach, juicy acidity, clean fruit like sweetness

**LIGHT ROAST**

Indigenous Heirloom Cultivars
Washed process
2100-2300 meters