HATCH - Mate Matiwos | Ethiopia - Washed - 74158

Hatch Coffee Roasters is located in Markham, Ontario, Canada

From HATCH

From Swift Coffee:

“2nd place 2024 Cup of Excellence competition Mate Mateyos is a coffee producer the founders of Swift Coffee Sourcing have partnered with in various ways since the 2016-2017 coffee harvest. He is part of a special group of Single Farmers who originally brought their cherries to a washing station we exclusively supported, while each year brought more and more isolation of the lots until, going on a decade later, we offer this microlot from Mate’s Keramo area farm.”

“Mate bought a small hand pulper, run by the muscles of the laborers on site. Coffee cherries are fed into it, and seed by seed the pulped coffee is spit out, hand-washed in barrels, then laid to dry on the raised beds. Doing it this way is incredibly labor-intensive. Normally, it’s done with a mechanized pulper, then the coffee is run through long cement washing channels where it is scrubbed, then to tanks at least 10,000 kg in size to ferment. After which, it’s washed again and then put out to dry. We named this process Precision Washing because that is exactly what it is: lot by lot, cherry by cherry, each kg of this coffee is transported, scrubbed, fermented, rinsed, and dried in the most hands-on way possible. This allows a lot of precision in the process, which is part of why it is such a delicate result.”