Halo Beriti Washing Station

Description

Halo Beriti Washing Station was established in 2014 and serves around 750 smallholder producers, who deliver their coffee in cherry form. As is typical in Ethiopia, farmers grow coffee on small plots alongside other crops, delivering cherry to a central washing station where it is sorted, weighed, and processed. The station serves hundreds of producers across the harvest season. The blending of these cherries into day lots makes precise producer-level traceability difficult, though every effort is made to source from the same washing stations year after year through established export partnerships. Farmers in this region generally do not use fertilizers or pesticides.

This lot is part of a "special preparation", known locally as "Premium", in which cherries are collected from a limited number of smallholders, with 90% perfectly ripe red, 5% semi-red, and 5% overripe. The lot is processed and stored separately, and only a small number of bags are produced this way each year. In most cases, cherries for these lots come from a single day's picking. Hand-sorting is performed repeatedly throughout receiving and drying to ensure only perfect coffees make it into the bags.
For processing, cherries are first sorted for ripeness and quality, rinsed clean, then spread on raised drying beds and rotated consistently throughout drying. Drying takes an average of 8–25 days depending on weather conditions.

Brewing recommendation

Resting time - 3+ weeks

Espresso: 1:2.4-2.6, 91c, 30s

Filter: 1:15.5-16.5, 90c

Text from Rogue Wave Coffee's listing.