Megadu "Static Cherry" Anoxic [25/26

LONDON COFFEE FESTIVAL FEATURE RELEASE: Our first introduction to Hester & Dawit - and the Bette Buna project - came from this very process. Having put down a table of coffees for the Scene Better Daze collab, this lot stood head and shoulders above the rest. We've been buying from Bette Buna ever since, with this season marking our third harvest purchasing their coffee. We had the pleasure of cupping in the Bette Buna lab in a recent trip to Ethiopia, and once again this lot jumped out on the table to us. We're firing the starting gun on the fresh crop Ethiopia - we joined forces with Skylark and Yallah to split a full airfreight pallet, facilitated by the lovely team at Falcon. A rare chance to try this style of coffee as fresh as fresh can be - at peak florality, these more process-heavy coffees can tend to tip a little more towards in-cherry flavours with the longer shipping times we'll see for ships heading round the cape of good hope. "Change the world. Start with Coffee" Brew Guide: Best Brewed with: Filter/Espresso Lightest Roaster Influence: Super dense and well sorted, we're hammering this one with heat up front but tamping it down towards the end of the roast to respect the process-level funk, we experimented with this coffee - finding we can tip it a little more towards boozy blueberries with a heavier hand, and more delicate florals and tropical fruits by backing off. We've alighted very close to the lightest test roast as our desired reference Best Rested: 3-4+ weeks Filter: 62g/L, 96°C when fresh but when well rested you can go down to 91-92°C Espresso: 18g/48g/18-22s. Excellent soup/turbo We’re tasting: Big blueberry, strawberry, and pineapple aromatics - in the cup we're finding blueberry danish (cooked blueberry, buttery pastry and creamy lactic notes), dried pineapple and a white chocolate sweetness, with a prominent marmalade note in the finish while hot. As it cools becoming a little more process forward - the acidity and aromatics reminding us of orange gewürztraminer wine, with coriander seed, lemon oils & a lavender + geranium florality in the finish.