Description / Cupping Notes

Ripe Red Fruits, Raspberry, Chocolate, Balanced

• After a minimum of 14 weeks resting, the dried fruit is processed  at the Aira Hulling Station
• The hulled coffee will be transferred to Addis Ababa in June for final milling to Grade 1 at the Moplaco Dry Mill (1-5 defects max.)
• The coffee is scheduled to ship to the US in July/August 2022 directly from Ethiopia with your name on the bag tag.
• The fully traceable coffee is scanned in and out of our Costa Oro warehouse in Washington and shipped directly to you.
• Uniquely traceable coffee!

• The founder of Asikana Coffee, Mr. Bodja Gelalcha and his family have deep community ties with the area stretching back for over 200 years. Coffee cultivation is an integral part of rural life in that part of Ethiopia. Bodja, the eldest son of a farmer in a family of four boys and two girls, with a huge thirst for knowledge and education, grabbed the opportunity for schooling at an early age. After finishing his master’s degree in developmental studies, Bodja worked on various development projects. These experiences equipped him with a fundamental vision of how to improve living standards in his native community. Asikana was established with the goal of educating community members on the development and production of high-quality coffee. Asikana in Afan Oromo (the language of Oromia) means “we start from here.“ Asikana was established in 2008 with its head office in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Asikana has farm sites in Buri and Kalo of Wora Kura and Kure administrative units (Kebeles) in Aira District part of Western Wollega Zone, Oromia Regional State.
• The symbol of Asikana Coffee is the Sololiya Bird. Asikana’s farms are also Smithsonian Bird Friendly Certified

• In 2019, Asikana sent an intern named Mengistu to San Cristobal’s Mexico office in Tepic, Nayarit
• The purpose of his internship was to take quality control knowledge back to Ethiopia to improve the efficiency and quality of Asikana’s harvest
• Mengistu returned to Ethiopia in May 2019 to set up a FincaLab® standard cupping lab. Three years later, Mengistu continues to implement coffee QMS and improve the quality of Asikana’s coffee!

• FincaLab®  process control system delivers traceability like no other, traceability that is not practically achievable through Blockchain.  These controls also allow us to assign the donated coffee to the auction winner at the moment of export.  Using the barcodes on the bags, the coffee will be scanned into the Costa Oro warehouse near Seattle and scanned out when delivered to the auction winner.