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Ethiopia Bekele Belaycho Espresso — supplied coffee image 1
Ethiopia Bekele Belaycho Espresso — supplied coffee image 2
Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Ethiopia Bekele Belaycho Espresso; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

Editorial sacred-geometry artwork for Ethiopia Bekele Belaycho Espresso; not a documentary photograph

Editorial illustration

🇪🇹EthiopiaNaturalJARC 74158Light roast
Roaster website
Country
🇪🇹Ethiopia
Region
Sidamo
Town
Hora Ganet
Farm / Station
Farmer / Producer
Species
Arabica
Type
Single origin
Grade
Specialty
Variety
Process
Roast
Light
Tasting notes
Plum, Pineapple, Sweet Cream
Fermentation
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Drying
Raised beds; the exact drying duration for this espresso release is not published.
Product page
Date reviewed
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Why some details are blank
  • harvestVerve's current exact-release page does not publish a harvest month or crop year.
  • drying durationThe page says the cherries were slowly dried on raised beds but gives no duration for this release.
  • contributing smallholdersNeighboring smallholders are acknowledged, but their names, count, and lot proportions are not disclosed.
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.

  1. 01
    The name on the bag
    Ethiopia Bekele Belaycho Espresso
  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
    The variety
  5. 05
    The farm
  6. 06
  7. 07
    The region
  8. 08
From the producer

Bekele Belaycho is a coffee producer who operates the Hora Ganet site in the Bensa region of Ethiopia.

From the roaster

Verve Coffee Roasters is a coffee company that highlights this selection as a light-roasted, single-origin espresso offering characterized by its adventurous and sweet flavor profile.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

This single-origin espresso is sourced directly from producer Bekele Belaycho's Hora Ganet site in Bensa, Ethiopia, and is noted for its plush sweetness and fruit-forward profile.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

01
Selective harvest

Ripe cherries were selectively harvested at Bekele Belaycho's Hora Ganet site with help from his family and neighboring smallholders.

02
Natural processing

The coffee remained in the whole cherry for natural processing.

03
Raised-bed drying

The cherries were dried slowly on raised beds; the exact duration for this espresso release is not published.

What was added?

Nothing was disclosed as added during processing.

What wasn't added?

No fruit, flavoring, or other additive was disclosed.

Why it matters

Whole-cherry natural processing and slow raised-bed drying can emphasize fruit intensity and sweetness while careful selection protects clarity.

What you might taste

Plum, pineapple, and sweet cream.

Sources for these process claims
  • · https://vervecoffee.com/products/bekele-belaycho-espresso
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:

Same coffee, different roaster?

Other roasters, same producer.

These coffees come from the same producer or farm, offered by other roasters. We never automatically declare two offerings the exact same coffee — a match requires lot, harvest and traceability details. Even a true same-lot pair can taste different: roast approach, freshness, rest and brewing all reshape the cup.

Verve Coffee Roasters · Ethiopia
Same producer and farm — likely a different lot, variety or process.
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