Bee Culture - Kochere Washing Station

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Kochere is sourced from family-owned farms organized around the Kochere coffee mill located in the town and district of Kochere within the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples' Regional State, Ethiopia. The Kochere Washing station is famous for many high end lots of coffee, and is owned and operated by Matewos Ersemo and his family. The Kochere mill receives ripe cherries from 650 small coffee farmers in the surrounding area and processes and specially sorts the beans into grades which are determined by size, consistency of size and density, and cup quality.