DAK - Peachy Daze | Ethiopia

Ethiopia — Chelbesa Washing Station Heirloom "Peachy Daze" (Washed)

Tastes Like — 🌼 Elderflower • 🍋 Lemon • 🍑 White Peach • 🍵 Black Tea

DETAILS

• Producer: Chelbesa Washing Station (SNAP Specialty Coffee)

• Region: Gedeb, Gedeo zone, Ethiopia

• Varietal: Ethiopian Heirloom

• Process: Washed (low intervention)

• Altitude: 2,173 masl

• Harvest: 2026

• Roaster: DAK Coffee Roasters

INTRO
Peachy Daze is a clean, fully washed Ethiopian heirloom from the Chelbesa washing station in Gedeb. The cup is light and delicate, with white peach and lemon up front, black tea through the middle, and a soft elderflower finish. In the cup: elderflower, lemon, white peach, and black tea.

THE PRODUCER
Peachy Daze comes from the Chelbesa washing station in Gedeb, in the Gedeo zone of southern Ethiopia, where SNAP Specialty Coffee runs the mill. At 2,173 masl, the cherries ripen slowly, which gives them time to build sugar and a bright, clean acidity.

Ethiopian heirloom is the name for the many native varieties that grow across Ethiopia, often side by side on the same farm.

THE PROCESS
In a washed process, the ripe cherries are pulped to remove the skin and most of the fruit, then left to ferment until the sticky layer around the seed comes away, and finally washed clean and dried. Removing the fruit early keeps the flavours precise, and that is where the tea-like clarity of this cup comes from. DAK rates the intervention as low: a classic washed lot, shaped by the varieties, the altitude, and careful processing at the station. The page doesn't give lot-specific steps.

THE CUP
Light, delicate, and bright: white peach and lemon up front, black tea through the middle, and a soft elderflower finish, with the fruit and tea coming through one after the other.

Flavour Notes
🌼 Elderflower 🍋 Lemon 🍑 White Peach 🍵 Black Tea