Dur Feres | Ethiopia
Dur Feres | Ethiopia
We are very proud to partner with Catalyst Trade, an importer that has sourced numerous award-winning coffees and has a high standard of excellence for coffee. This coffee is sourced from several communities in the Guji region.
Dur Feres is complex and balanced. It has really nice fruit notes and reminds us of fruit tea with a hint of cherry. Think strawberries and cream, blueberries, cherry cordial – as well as earl grey!
We taste: Strawberries & cream, cherry tea, juicy
Region: Guji, Ethiopia
Process: Natural
Variety: Mixed
Altitude: 1700–2100 masl
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Recommended Brew Methods
Dur Feres works great as espresso, pour over, or Kyoto slow drip brew methods. It’s also nice as a drip coffee, as it’s a well rounded African coffee.
Notes from Catalyst Trade
Our flagship community lot, Dur Feres, is a coffee we developed by popular demand and with a heck-ton of nostalgia in mind. Founder and Sourcing Director Michael McIntyre came of age as a coffee person in the early aughts when one of the greatest coffees in the world was Mohamed Ogsady’s famed Harar Horse brand (with its iconic cloth label showing a horse silhouetted against the MAO name). Coffee folks everywhere slip into nostalgia when we mention Harar Horse coffee: its thick blueberry puree and chocolate notes took the world by storm in a time when coffees weren’t as distinguished by origin characteristics as we now expect.
With the death of Mohamed Ogsady and the institution of the Ethiopian Commodities Exchange (ECX), the MAO Horse coffee sadly became a thing of the past. However, in 2016 when Michael set out to create a carefully composed in-country blend of selected lots Grades 1, 2, and 3, he knew exactly what he was going for: homage to the great coffee and producers that changed so many lives and defined so many palates, including his own. Our Dur Feres, or “Wild Horse” translated from Amharic, was born.
We source Dur Feres and its sister washed coffee, Tsebel, from the families and communities where we source our highest quality microlots. Dur Feres has the same level of traceability, is organic certified, and maintains a steady flavor profile which we ourselves curate using coffees from various regions of Ethiopia as they come ripe. This allows us to keep a fresh crop supply always rotating and gives our roasters the assurance that they can build their sourcing programs around having a constant supply of this coffee at the same price and with the same flavor profile they’ve come to expect.