Filter - ALO Coffee, Ethiopia 100g

Tamiru Tadesse is a coffee producer who has been in the coffee business for the last eight years. Originally from Bensa in Sidama, a region known for its agriculture climate and fertility. Six years working in coffee, Tamiru Tadesse saw the great disconnect between the exceptional flavours and high cup quality potential of his hometown's coffees and the way these were being undervalued across the market. It was also clear to him how this put the smallholder coffee-growing families and the country's coffee industry at a huge disadvantage. 

In 2020 when establishing his company Alo Coffee, Tamiru took an unprecedent risk in choosing his main processing station in Alo Kebelle, a village new to growing coffee due to the high altitude estimated to be above 2400masl. The risk paid off in 2021 making Tamiru the winner of CoE with an anerobic coffee produced and processed at an altitude of 2450masl. Due to the high altitude, the coffee that grows in Alo are smaller in size making them below the standard screen, but known for its unique taste exclusive to the village and altitude they are grown in.