Hunkute just might be our favorite Ethiopian coffee of the year, and we’ve had some great ones. With a bright lemonade quality and floral and tangerine notes, Hunkute is a delightful hot or iced coffee. As espresso, Hunkute is like a mouthwatering, juicy-sweet taffy candy (think Starburst fruit chews), and when incorporated with steamed milk is reminiscent of freshly baked glazed lemon cookies.

This coffee, roasted by our partners at Madcap Coffee Co., comes from an organic cooperative in Wonsho, Sidama, in Ethiopia. The Hunkute Cooperative is comprised of roughly 2,000 small farmers who grow their coffee nearby. Hunkute falls under the umbrella of the much larger Sidama Coffee Farmers Cooperative, which provides support to more than 70,000 farmers at 47 cooperatives throughout Sidama. While this is a limited release coffee, we plan on keeping it in our lineup as long as we can.

Tasting notes: Lemonade, floral, bright, tangerine
Producer: Hunkute Cooperative
Region: Wonsho, Sidama
Variety: Heirloom
Altitude: 1950 meters
Processing: Washed and dried on raised beds