http://www.deftcoffee.com/2009/03/10/kebado-wet-processed-from-kebado-sidamo-ethiopia/ Splendid coffees from around your world Thu, 14 Jul 2011 22:54:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 http://www.deftcoffee.com/2009/03/10/kebado-wet-processed-from-kebado-sidamo-ethiopia/comment-page-1/#comment-139 Good news for the Ethiopian ECX | Deft. Coffee Roasters. Mon, 31 Aug 2009 19:05:23 +0000 http://www.deftcoffee.com/?p=347#comment-139 [...] There’s been a great deal of not unwarranted moaning within the specialty coffee industry about Ethiopia’s new Exchange system, and how it hadn’t been set up with allowances for direct trade with farms and how that would essentially make it impossible to get the same high quality coffees that we have been getting used to over the past few years… This morning, I came across an article that states the ECX has responded to these concerns (contrary to some reporting, they never ignored them, they just didn’t deal with the issue…). Anyway, it seems that it’s being corrected for next year… Eleni Gabre-Madhin, chief executive officer of the ECX, said in an interview that the exchange will begin offering a direct buying service to encourage exactly the type of buying we have grown to love. Awesome. Cause I would sorely miss some years without any wet-processed Koratie. [...] [...] There’s been a great deal of not unwarranted moaning within the specialty coffee industry about Ethiopia’s new Exchange system, and how it hadn’t been set up with allowances for direct trade with farms and how that would essentially make it impossible to get the same high quality coffees that we have been getting used to over the past few years… This morning, I came across an article that states the ECX has responded to these concerns (contrary to some reporting, they never ignored them, they just didn’t deal with the issue…). Anyway, it seems that it’s being corrected for next year… Eleni Gabre-Madhin, chief executive officer of the ECX, said in an interview that the exchange will begin offering a direct buying service to encourage exactly the type of buying we have grown to love. Awesome. Cause I would sorely miss some years without any wet-processed Koratie. [...]

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