Sede November 2026 Travellers

Dose: 20g

Ratio: 1:17

Grind: Significantly Coarser than Neutral

Lab Grind: 8.3 EK43 Drip Burrs

Brew Time: 3:15

TDS: 1.32%

Extraction: 19.67%

Sensory Description:

Well-dialed cups of Sede are a great example of the high clarity, more delicate flavor profiles of washed Yirgacheffe offerings. On the front end, the brightness will present like Meyer lemon, slightly sweeter and less acidic than a traditional lemon. Towards the middle of the sip, much of the sweetness is reminiscent of berries like blackberries and raspberries. The finish has hints of white florals, indicative of a properly dialed cup. Overall, the texture and body are light, leaning into the soft and delicate nature of a washed Ethiopian coffee.

Dial Notes:

This coffee needs a grind setting much coarser than our typical offerings to avoid stalling your brewer. Wherever you normally set your grinder, I would recommend several notches coarser on the first brew of Sede.

Under-extracted cups had most of the flavor up front, presenting with the signature lemon-like flavor, but missing out on the middle and backend. The sweetness was slightly lacking, and the finish was quite quick. Rather than being delicate and tea-like, which is what we’re looking for in this coffee, it leaned too far in this direction and became thin and slightly watery. Under-extraction on this coffee required an extremely coarse grind setting, making it far more likely that you over-extract. However, if you do get a cup like the one described above, I would recommend grinding a little finer for the next brew.

Over-extracted cups of Sede were much more likely, as this coffee requires a pretty coarse grind setting compared to our neutral. In these cups I got many of the same tasting notes–lemon, blackberry, floral–but they came across as pretty muted, rather than the high clarity notes of better brews. This left the cups lacking in brightness and with a relatively flat finish. In this instance, I would grind coarser for the next cups.

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