OCR Yirgracheffe
Flavour Profile
Ripe berry sweetness, floral notes with a long, lemony finish
- Misty Valley, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia
- Natural
- 1,700~2,000 Meters
- Operation Cherry Red
The BeanCurious Specialty Range
Our specialty coffees are of very limited supply and like a vintage champagne, only sold in the best years. Once out of stock we may never feature it again. Also as the flavours of these coffees may be delicate, we may omit certain roast levels.
Roast Profile
Light Roast
The light roast is a beautiful balance of berries, lemons and floral notes. Basically the coffee version of a good Burgundy.
Roaster's Choice
Roasted a light medium lowers the acidity and makes the berries taste a bit riper against a backdrop of dried lemon peel.
Dark Roast
We won’t roast this coffee to this level as everything that makes it special will just go up in smoke.
There’s Yirgacheffe: the highly prized Ethiopian coffee that coffee connoisseurs rave about for it’s delicate acidity and vibrant florals, and then there’s OCR Yirgacheffe. OCR stands for “Operation Cherry Red” which is the brainchild of Trabocca Coffee Importers.
Trabocca coffee felt that Ethiopian coffee was good, but that with proper motivation it could be truly excellent. So they created an incentive program intended to propel coffee farmers of the region to the upper echelons of the coffee world. The OCR program asks each farm to submit micro-lots of 1,500 to 3,000kg of only their best, ripest, deepest “cherry red” coffee possible.
These coffee cherries are hand-picked fully ripe cherries, carefully sorted and processed to bring out the best flavours each farmer is capable of. Each of these premium coffee lots are then sent to auction where enthusiastic roasters and drinkers taste and bid up the prices of the choicest lots. In return for their care and dedication to making top-quality coffee the prices fetched are auction are then returned directly to the farmers so that they can improve their quality of life, equipment and motivation to create even better coffee next year.
From the OCR program comes this coffee from Misty Valley. A prime example of what happens when you put an enormous amount of care into your plants: crystal clear fruitiness, complexity, and unique character. Misty Valley Yirgacheffe is perfumed, light and has a lingering berry finish that will stay with you all day.
Resting Your Coffee
Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.
Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:
Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date
But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!
No Pre-Ground Beans?
Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.
The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.
As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.
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