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🇪🇹Ethiopia · Sidama

2026 Demeka Becha - Ethiopia

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

Washed

TagsEthiopia Sidama Ethiopian Landraces Washed Pineapple Jasmine Arabica Single origin Demeka Becha Ayele Tulu Family Sey Coffee Independent

🇪🇹EthiopiaWashedEthiopian Landraces

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇪🇹Ethiopia

Region

Sidama

Town

Becha

Farm / Station

Demeka Becha

Farmer / Producer

Ayele Tulu Family

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Ethiopian Landraces

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

Pineapple, Earl Grey tea, Jasmine

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

individual smallholder contributorsSEY says the station buys from nearly 10,000 producers across five communities but does not identify the farms contributing to this lot.
roast levelSEY does not publish a conventional roast-level label for this release.
roast dateSEY states its weekly roasting and shipping cadence but does not publish the roast date for this exact bag or release.
standardized gradeGrade 1 appears as a processing density-separation step; no formal exported green-coffee grade was published for the finished lot.
public sentiment ratingOne independent exact-coffee firsthand source was found, but it publishes no numeric rating; no score was inferred.

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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
2026 Demeka Becha - 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
Demeka Becha
Documented
06
The farmer
Ayele Tulu Family
Documented
07
The region
Sidama
Documented
08
The country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Documented

From the producer

The hilltop Demeka Becha washing station near Becha village is owned and managed by Ayele Tulu, Genet Haile Endeshow, and Tsegab Ayele. It purchases cherry from nearly 10,000 smallholders across five nearby communities.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery dedicated to sourcing and roasting dynamic, complex coffees. They focus on building transparent, long-term relationships throughout the supply chain to highlight the unique characteristics of each origin.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

A precisely documented Bona Zuria station lot whose 36-hour underwater fermentation and raised-bed drying preserve a bright, floral Sidama profile.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Select

Ripe cherries were hand-picked and floated to remove defects.

Depulp and separate

The coffee was depulped and Grade 1 density separated.

Ferment

The depulped coffee fermented underwater for 36 hours.

Dry

The washed coffee dried on raised beds for 10–14 days.

What was added?

No adjuncts are disclosed.

What wasn't added?

The exact source does not disclose fruit, spices, flavorings or inoculated cultures.

Why it matters

Density separation, controlled underwater fermentation and slow raised-bed drying provide unusually specific process traceability for a washing-station lot.

What you might taste

SEY lists pineapple, Earl Grey tea, and jasmine; these are roaster notes, not a site tasting claim.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/products/2026-demeka-becha-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

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-31) 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. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Demeka Becha →Meet the farmer: Ayele Tulu Family →

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WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

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