Riripa is a fruit-forward, complex coffee from Ethiopia’s famed Sidamo region. The unique soil and varieties around Riripa washing station give this coffee its refreshing stone fruit, black tea, and warm sugar notes.
Grown by farmers around the washing station, this lot highlights the complexity created by each smallholder contributing their farms' landrace varietals to the washing station. The garden farming – intercropping – model practiced by these producers is a traditional model in Ethiopia. It lends both to stability for the farmer and increased biodiversity for the region.
Cherries are picked by hand when ripe and deep red, then delivered to the washing station. There they are sorted once again to ensure only the ripest beans make it in the lot. The coffee is then fermented, washed, and dried on raised drying beds for a week. The resulting coffee is sweet, structured, and crisp in its presentation.
Sidamo coffees have long been a favorite at Metric. Riripa shares some of our favorite qualities of this area and is a great example of the skill of the area's farmers. In the cup we taste Bing cherry, peach tea, and date sugar.
Green Price
$4.41
Green cost, milling, transport, taxes and exporting fees.
Transport
$0.70
Importing fees and transport from the farm to Chicago, Illinois.
Our Cost of Production
$6.00
Labor, Rent, Health Insurance, Paid Time Off
Metric
$11.11
Per 10.5oz bag of coffee
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Ethiopia Riripa
Sidamo, Ethiopia
- Producer Riripa Smallholders
- Elevation 1950 MASL
- Process Washed
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Quality
Quality means buying high quality coffees from established producers around the world.
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Traceability
Traceability gives recognition to the producers and validates where the coffee is grown, picked, and processed.
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Transparency
We endeavor to contextualize the importance of a fair and balanced trade through the prices we pay.
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Paying More
As an Independent Specialty Coffee Roaster, we always pay well above the C-Market based on two factors; the quality of coffee and the cost of production.
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Fair Wage
A fair wage begins with paying higher premiums to the coffee producer in tandem with providing competitive wages and benefits for our staff here at Metric.