Origin Report · Ethiopia
Worka Sakaro,
Yirgacheffe.
- Process
- washed
- Roast
- light
- Producer
- Worka Sakaro Cooperative
- 250 g
- $22.00
Filed by Margot, week 21· Filed from 1183 Kingston Road
Worka Sakaro is the kind of coffee that earns the floral reputation washed Ethiopias once had and lost. Picked at the very top of a 2,100m ridge, fermented under shade, dried slow on raised beds. Brewed right, it tastes the way good loose-leaf tea smells.
The Worka Sakaro Cooperative sits high in the Gedeo zone, where every smallholder is a co-op member and every cherry passes through one washing station before it gets a name on a sack. The station was built in 2007 and operates the way it did then. Sorting tables, depulpers from the seventies, raised beds the length of two basketball courts.
Pilot Coffee, the Toronto roaster we buy from, has gone back to this exact lot four years running. The flavour profile is so consistent it almost feels engineered, except that it is, in fact, just one altitude, one varietal, and one steady set of hands at the wet mill.
We brew this one as a pour-over and ignore the espresso machine entirely. It rewards patience: a 1:16 ratio, water just off the boil, a forty-five-second bloom. If you take milk in your coffee, this is not the morning to start.
Nose
Bergamot peel, jasmine, raw cane sugar.
Palate
White peach, green apple, a quiet floral midsection. Cleaner than most washed Yirgs.
Finish
Citric brightness, lingering tea-like dryness.
Origin Map
Fig. M
Worka Sakaro, Yirgacheffe, Ethiopia
6.16°, 38.21°
At the Bar · Page B
A note from the bar.
We grind to order at the bar. If you take a bag home, ask Joel for the matching V60 paper. He throws those in.
Pairs with
Almond cake. Or nothing.
How to brew it · Section C
Two methods we recommend.
Method 01
WASHED
Pour-over (V60)
18g coffee, 290g water, 96C. 45-second bloom, three slow pours every 30 seconds. Total brew time 3:00.
Method 02
WASHED
Chemex
30g coffee, 480g water, 96C. Bloom for one minute. Pour in concentric circles every 45 seconds. Total brew time 4:30.