Ethiopian Sidamo GR 4 – Planet Bean Coffee Roastery

Ethiopian Sidamo Coffee Review

Roasted By Planet Bean Coffee – Guelph, Ontario, Canada

Planet Bean is a Micro-roastery. They roast with 5 and 25 kilo probats on a roast to order basis. I recently had the opportunity to cup several of their coffees, and here is the review for their Sidamo roast:

• Roast: Full City (-)
• Origin: E. Sidamo – OROMIA
• Grade: 4
• Crop: Current (2008)

Aroma: Berry, berry, berry!!! Wonderful floral hints underneath!

Wet Fragrance (crust): Very nutty aroma in the crust, which pleasing underlying berry notes. It seems when the crust is broken, a waft of berry hits your nose, passing to a nutty aroma and back to berry. Very complex!

Acidity: A sparkling acidity concentrated to the front of your mouth and your lips.

Body: light – medium

Flavour: Starts as a nippy, spiced chocolate flavour which quickly passes to a heavy berry taste.

Aftertaste: The berry flavour persists for quite some time.

Here we have a great example of a well processed and well roasted dry process coffee. Sidamo is well know for their washed coffees as well, but I find that the dry process coffees posses very pleasant characteristics that seem to come naturally through this process.

I rate this coffee 87/100 on my cupping sheet.