Hambela

Hambela

Heirloom Variety

Guji, Ethiopia

raspberry, yellow peach, milk chocolate

Natural Process

Fresh off the grind the aromatics are intense and intoxicating with ripe raspberry taking center stage. As a pour over, we are tasting everything from raspberry to ripe yellow peach, with a mid tone of silky milk chocolate.

Archived: 12.04.25

Experience

Comfort

Adventure

Roast Level

Light

Medium

Various small plot growers

PRODUCER

Since 2025

RELATIONSHIP

1970m-2241m

Elevation

Hambela is everything we've grown to love over the years about excellent natural processed coffees from Ethiopia

This will be the last natural coffee from Ethiopia we share with you in 2025 and it's pretty easy to argue we saved the best for last! Apart from our taste buds telling us so, this coffee also initially won top prize at the African Fine Coffee Association's (AFCA) Taste of Harvest Competition this past spring! Not good enough? Well, we decided to submit this gem in the very recent Global Coffee Awards for the US and Canada and Hambela cleaned house with 3 gold medals, 1 silver, and 1 bronze in various filter and flat white (with regular dairy milk) categories, including top honors for the overall Flat White category! Sweet Bloom will now move on to compete in the global finals this coming spring...

Hambela is everything we've grown to love over the years about excellent natural processed coffees from Ethiopia - it is clean, full of ripe fruit, but the fermentation does not dominate - the beautiful terroir of Ethiopia still shines through! Fresh off the grind the aromatics are intense and intoxicating with ripe raspberry taking center stage. As a pour over, we are tasting everything from raspberry to ripe yellow peach, with a mid tone of silky milk chocolate. As espresso, incorporated with milk, the berry notes shine through upfront and then fade to sweet chocolate on the finish. No matter how you drink this coffee, it's a winner! Enjoy!

Brew It

ORIGAMI AIR

RATIO 1:17

COFFEE 18g

H2O 305g

BREW TIME 2:40

TDS 1.35%

GRIND 1200µm

Espresso

COFFEE IN 18g

ESPRESSO OUT 38g

BREW TIME 22-24s

Transparency

1Spot purchase

“Spot” is coffee in an importer’s inventory they have not sold. When we need to fill gaps in our contractual and relationship purchases, we buy spot. Of course, we are always open to spot becoming relationship purchases, and sometimes they do.

 2Contract purchase

Most of our purchases are contractual, meaning we have made a commitment to purchase the coffee before it arrives in the US. In general contracts are meant to build security for the producer and importer, and to help us make sure we have the coffee we need to share with you.

 3Repeat purchase

We are proud of the fact that many of the coffees we purchase are repeat purchases, and have been for years. Most producers, especially from Central and South America, can count on us purchasing their coffee year after year.

 4Visits

We’ve met, and have an ongoing relationship with the producer. At a minimum, they have visited us at Sweet Bloom, or we have visited them on the farm. As the relationship deepens, we build our understanding of:

1) challenges faced from one year to the next
2) sustainability practices on the farm
3) how the farmer is caring for their staff
4) ways in which we can support projects the farmers have implemented on the farm and in the community

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