A beautiful Ethiopian coffee that is light, smooth, and slightly citrusy.

Elala means "mountain" in the Sidama language. It's the name given to a specific lot of coffee from the Bona Qiqe Washing Station in Sidama, Ethiopia. Like a lot of communities in Ethiopia, coffee farmers cultivate small amounts of coffee and lack the resources to process and export it themselves. So washing stations, like Bona Qiqe, are set up within these communities to purchase the harvested coffee cherries from the local farmers and process and export it on their behalf. The Bona Qiqe washing station serves the 400 farmers of the Bona Zuria district within Sidama. It's an area high in the mountains, cultivating coffee at elevations from 1,920 to 2,330 meters above sea level. This high elevation causes coffee to ripen late in the year where harvests happen between November and January. Coffee cherries are brought to Bona Qiqe where they're sorted, processed to remove all the fruit and mucilage from the beans, graded for quality and put into lots to be sold to folks like us and enjoyed by folks like you.