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🇪🇹Ethiopia · Yirgacheffe

Ethiopia Yirgacheffe - Aricha

Roasted by Red Bird CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEthiopia Yirgacheffe null Natural Medium roast Plum Blackberry Arabica Single origin Specialty Kebel Aricha coffee mill Surafel Birhanu Red Bird Coffee Independent

🇪🇹EthiopiaNaturalMedium roast

Brand

Red Bird Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Region

Yirgacheffe

Town

Yirgacheffe

Farm / Station

Kebel Aricha coffee mill

Farmer / Producer

Surafel Birhanu

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Specialty

Variety

null

Process

Roast

Medium

Tasting notes

Plum, Blackberry, Grape, Chocolate, Balanced Body, Subtle Floral Aromas

Fermentation

—

Drying

Whole cherries dried in thin layers on raised beds for four to six weeks, turned every two to three hours during the first days.

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

—

Why some details are blank

varietyThe roaster has not disclosed the variety.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
Ethiopia Yirgacheffe - Aricha
Named on the bag
02
The brand
Red Bird Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Red Bird Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
null
Named on the bag
05
The farm
Kebel Aricha coffee mill
Documented
06
The farmer
Surafel Birhanu
Documented
07
The region
Yirgacheffe
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Documented

From the producer

Surafel Birhanu owns Kebel Aricha coffee mill, which receives ripe cherries from 650–700 small farms in the Gedeo Zone. The individual farms and growers are not named in the exact release.

From the roaster

Red Bird Coffee is a family-owned, small-batch roaster in Bozeman, Montana.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This release documents both the mill owner and the community of 650 to 700 contributing farms. Its natural processing includes frequent turning and four to six weeks of raised-bed drying.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact product page

Added the mill, owner, farm-community count, current price and availability, bag sizes, roast, cup profile, official imagery, and brew methods.

Structured the origin chain

Connected Ethiopia, Yirgacheffe, Kebel Aricha mill, Surafel Birhanu, and natural processing.

Protected sentiment integrity

Excluded other roasters' Aricha coffees and seller-hosted material from public sentiment scoring.

What was added?

Yirgacheffe region, Kebel Aricha mill, Surafel Birhanu, natural processing detail, current price and availability, official imagery, six taste fields, and brew guidance.

What wasn't added?

No cultivar, elevation, harvest, fermentation detail, or house score was inferred.

Why it matters

The page traces the coffee from roaster to mill owner and contributing-farm community without inventing missing lot details.

What you might taste

Plum, blackberry, grape, chocolate, balanced body, and subtle floral aromas.

Sources for these process claims

· https://redbirdcoffee.com/products/ethiopia-yirgacheffe-aricha

Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-25) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Kebel Aricha coffee mill →Meet the farmer: Surafel Birhanu →

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