MOMOKA

FLAVOUR PROFILE

SWEET, SOFT & ROUND - PEAR, MARZIPAN, MILK CHOCOLATE

ORIGIN

KONGA YIRGACHEFFE, ETHIOPIA

FARM

KONGA SEDE WASHING STATION

FARMER

SMALLHOLDER FARMERS

PROCESS

WASHED

VARIETY

HEIRLOOM

MASL

1900 - 2100

This fully washed coffee comes from southern Ethiopia.

It is named in honour of the Ethiopian wolf (also known as the red jackal), called Ky kebero in Amharic.

The Ethiopian wolf is considered Africa’s most endangered carnivore and one of the rarest canids in the world. Only around 500 remain in the wild, with the largest population, about 150 animals, in the Bale Mountains west of the Yirgacheffe area.

To support conservation efforts, £10 from every bag sold goes to the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme.

This coffee uses the traditional fully washed process: ripe cherries are carefully selected by hand-picking and flotation. On the day of harvest they are pulped, fermented for 36–48 hours and then thoroughly washed in clean water in grading channels to remove all remaining mucilage.

The coffee, still in its parchment, is then sun-dried on raised African beds for 12–15 days depending on conditions. During the day the parchment is raked and turned regularly to ensure even drying. It is covered between 12:00 and 15:00 to protect it from the hot sun, and at night to protect it from rain and humidity. Once dried to the right level, the coffee is taken to Addis Ababa for dry milling, grading, intensive sorting and hand-picking.