Where the harvest stands, area by area

Sample entry. Written to exercise the Coffee Pulse templates — the association has not published this.

Ethiopia is not one origin and it does not have one harvest. The association’s seasonal outlook is written area by area for that reason: a picking window that has closed in one zone can be weeks from opening in another, and an average across them describes nowhere.

Reading it by zone

Each area is reported against its own window, its own processing and its own cup profile, so the line a member needs is the one for the area they actually work in.

• Sidamo — rich body, sweet, low acidity.
• Yirgacheffe — sweet and fruity, increasingly fragrant.
• Harrar — most commonly dry-processed, spicy and fragrant.
• Limu — well balanced, and washed more often than not.

Why it goes to members first

Most of what is in the outlook is only actionable if you are the one holding the coffee. It reaches members before it reaches anyone else, and nothing in it is a press release.