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🇪🇹Ethiopia · Guji

2025 Bishan Wate - Ethiopia

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsEthiopia Guji Ethiopian Landraces Washed Peach Lemon Arabica Single origin Bishan Wate Washing Station Sey Coffee Independent

🇪🇹EthiopiaWashedEthiopian Landraces

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Region

Guji

Town

Hambela

Farm / Station

Bishan Wate Washing Station

Farmer / Producer

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Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Ethiopian Landraces

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Ripe berries, White peach, Lemon zest

Fermentation

Underwater fermentation for 36 hours after depulping and Grade 1 density separation

Drying

Raised beds for 10–14 days

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

altitude mSEY publishes a 2,000–2,200 m range; no artificial midpoint was stored.
producer idSEY identifies Bishan Wate as the washing site but does not name its operator, an individual producer or contributing smallholder group.
roast levelThe exact archived release does not state a conventional roast-level label.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date is available for the archived release.
gradeGrade 1 appears within the density-separation process; no separate final formal grade is published.
price usdThe exact SEY page publishes green-coffee trade prices, not a verifiable retail bag price.
bag size gThe exact SEY page does not publish a verifiable consumer package size.

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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
2025 Bishan Wate - Ethiopia
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Ethiopian Landraces
Documented
05
The farm
Bishan Wate Washing Station
Documented
06
The farmer
Not disclosed
Not disclosed
07
The region
Guji
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Documented

From the producer

SEY identifies Bishan Wate as the washing site but does not name an individual producer for this release.

From the roaster

SEY describes its first Bishan Wate purchase as a washed Ethiopian-landrace coffee with ripe berries, white peach and lemon zest.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A first-year SEY purchase from a Hambella washing site in Guji, pairing a high-elevation landrace lot with a detailed traditional washed protocol.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Selection

Peak-ripe cherries were hand-picked, floated and depulped.

Density separation and fermentation

Coffee was Grade 1 density-separated and fermented underwater for 36 hours.

Drying

Parchment was dried on raised beds for 10–14 days.

What was added?

SEY's published method lists no added ingredients; it describes underwater fermentation after depulping and density separation.

What wasn't added?

The published method does not disclose fruit additions, flavoring or an inoculated culture.

Why it matters

These are the defining processing details SEY publishes for the lot.

What you might taste

Ripe berries, white peach and lemon zest.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2025-bishan-wate-ethiopia

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

What the internet is saying

WE FOUND 1 RELEVANT PUBLIC SOURCES

AI-synthesized from publicly available information retrieved 2026-10-12. This is research, not our original tasting review.

What the sources say

One independent exact-context participant recommended Bishan Wate; the recommendation contains no tasting description or numeric score.

What people love

Recommended among SEY's then-current offerings for a buyer seeking coffees suitable for iced brewing.

What people don't

No criticism of this exact release was supplied.

Internet sentiment

A qualitative summary of public sources, including context. Not a coffee score.

Limited positive recommendation — one exact source

The sources

Public discussion
r/pourover
In a discussion explicitly about SEY's then-current coffees, a participant recommended the Bishan Wate. The post gives no tasting descriptors or numeric score.
Source

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FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

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