The Sips 2

Farmer: Mulugeta Muntasha

Origin: Arbegona, Bursa, Ethiopia

Altitude: ~2300m

Process: natural

Varietal: 74158 Heirloom

Roast level: light

Notes: pink lemonade, jasmine, strawberry & summer storm

This is easily one of the most expressive & exciting coffees of the year. So HUGE and complex. Filled with tons of jammy but tropical fruit & the real funk to go with it. Not overly funky but one of the BEST representations of how to do a Natural, WITH FUNK, cleanly and deliciously.

Mulugeta grew up in Bursa Village which, until rather recently, did NOT grow any coffee. In his youth, he went to the neighboring region of Arsi and worked as a truck driver, transporting cherry from the collection center to a private washing
station.

Through this experience, he learned the coffee business, eventually becoming a collector of coffee in Arsi and
supplying coffee to the central market. Through the effects of time and climate change, though, farmers in his home of Bursa began to plant coffee with the support of the Agricultural office, and in 2021 Mullugeta returned to Bursa and began
processing coffee at his own drying station, called Dawencho, where he won 2nd place in the Cup of Excellence for the Dawencho farmer group coffee and 6th place under his own name, Mullugeta Muntasha. In 2022, four of the top 10 CoE
winners were Mullugeta’s lots, including that of Legesse Botola—the top winner and Mullugeta’s brother-in law—who processed coffee at Mullugeta’s washing station located next to his farm.