Organic Ethiopia Sidamo Guji Coffee | Natural Process | 3rd Wave Coffee Roasters

Organic Ethiopia Natural Sidamo Guji G4 Coffee Beans – Natural Process

Coffee Profile

Tasting Notes: Milk Chocolate • Dried Fruit • Black Tea
Origin: Sidamo Guji, Ethiopia
Process: Natural (Dry Process)
Grade: G4 (Grade 4)

Flavor Experience

Organic Ethiopia Natural Sidamo Guji G4 is a rich and expressive Ethiopian coffee that brings together fruit-driven sweetness with chocolate depth and a refined tea-like character. In the cup, you'll discover smooth milk chocolate, concentrated dried fruit, and black tea, creating a layered coffee with approachable sweetness and a lingering finish.

Natural processing plays an important role in shaping the character of this coffee. Rather than removing the fruit immediately after harvest, whole coffee cherries are dried with the fruit surrounding the seed. This process can encourage greater sweetness, body, and fruit expression, complementing this coffee's dried-fruit character and smooth chocolate notes.

Whether enjoyed as pour over coffee, drip coffee, French press, espresso, or cold brew, these freshly roasted Ethiopian coffee beans offer a distinctive cup with a balance of fruit, chocolate, and tea-like complexity.

Roasted by 3rd Wave Coffee Roasters

At 3rd Wave Coffee Roasters, we roast specialty coffee in small batches with an emphasis on sweetness, balance, and origin character. Each roast is developed to highlight what makes the coffee distinctive while preserving the natural qualities of the bean.

We proudly provide freshly roasted coffee beans for home brewers, cafés, restaurants, offices, and wholesale partners seeking thoughtfully sourced and carefully roasted specialty coffee.

Coffee Origin

This organic coffee comes from Ethiopia and carries the Sidamo Guji designation used in the coffee trade. Guji is a coffee-producing zone within Ethiopia's Oromia Region and has developed a distinct identity within the specialty coffee world after historically being associated with the broader Sidamo coffee designation.

Coffee production throughout Guji is strongly connected to smallholder agriculture, with coffee from individual producers commonly brought together for processing and preparation. The region is known for producing both washed and natural coffees, with natural processing playing an especially important role in Guji's reputation for expressive, fruit-driven coffees.

With the natural process, ripe coffee cherries are dried whole before the dried fruit is removed from the seed. This extended contact between the coffee and fruit can contribute greater sweetness, body, and concentrated fruit character to the finished cup.

For this particular lot, notes of milk chocolate, dried fruit, and black tea create a balanced expression that combines the fruit character associated with natural Ethiopian coffee with a smooth chocolate foundation and tea-like finish.