Alo Coffee, 1st Place Cup of Excellence Winner

Reshaping Edges of Ethiopian Coffee Excellence with Archers

@tamiru_tadesse.t , Ethiopia Cup of Excellence 1st Place Winner in 2021 & founder of @alocoffee.et , is that coffee friend who always saw the potential of his hometown’s coffee & chose to invest in building the future he knows the producing communities deserve.

Our producing partner for four fulfilling years now, whom we met through our good friend @keneandukamo of @dayebensacoffee , Tamiru established Alo Coffee to elevate the global community’s esteem for Sidama Bensa coffees and, in doing so, encourage a greater return of value to the smallholder farmers responsible for the careful cultivation, harvesting, and farm maintenance necessary to produce the highest quality crops, especially at the steepest elevations, season after season.

Our partnership began in 2022 with two innovatively processed lots of the 74158 variety in the Competition Series, but 2023 was when we first co-curated post-harvest processing techniques to showcase 74158’s then-novel flavor notes.

In our current Alo Coffee selection, we feature eight Competition Series lots that give us a taste of the Alo x Archers friendship’s continuing conversation around coffee excellence and the different ways it can be expressed through a methodical and curious exploration of the 74158’s fascinating sensory dimensions, with heightened control of processing parameters.

Swing by our roastery, or visit our webshop, for your share soon, and discover how uniquely expressive and sensorially expansive the highest quality coffees, shaped by a mutually rewarding friendship, can be.