Coffee Processing with Allegro Coffee Roasters

Suke Quto is a farm Allegro first visited with their importer in 2009 and started buying from soon after. On that trip they met Tesfaye Bekele, the owner of the Suke Quto farm which is in the southern Guji Zone. He is a pioneer shade-grown organic coffee grower of the region. After a bushfire in the area years earlier, Tesfaye helped conserve the remaining forest by distributing coffee and shade tree seedlings to the surrounding small farmers and recruited these out-growers to help replant the coffee and forest canopy. With this, Tesfaye – an environmentalist, agronomist, and horticulturist – accomplished his dream of producing environmentally-friendly coffee while sustaining the local community with a consistent income source.



More recently, Tesfaye visited coffee growers in Colombia and became interested in the pulped natural process he saw there. Back at Suke Quto, he began experimenting with how to use it to supplement his washed process. The result of this experimentation is a coffee with explosive fruit notes and luscious body.



Attendees will do a side-by-side tasting of both Suke Quto’s washed-processed and honey-processed coffee from Allegro Coffee Roasters, as their lead roaster guides you through the farm history and processes for both coffees.