Danche - Honey

Ethiopia — Danche Washing Station Ethiopian Landrace (Yellow Honey)

Tastes Like — 🍑 Ripe Peach • 🥭 Mango • 🧃 Tropical Juice

DETAILS

• Station: Danche
• Region: Gedeb, Gedeo, Ethiopia
• Varietal: Ethiopian Landrace (Kurume, Wolisho & others)
• Process: Yellow Honey
• Altitude: 2,200 masl
• Harvest: December 2025

INTRO
Danche is an outstanding washing station with veteran contributing farmers and mill workers, drawing from some of the highest-elevation garden-farms in the coffee world. This honey-processed coffee is wildly sweet and fruit-forward: syrupy, with a panela-citrus dynamism and a viscous body. In the cup: ripe peach, mango, and tropical juice, with melon, berry, and jammy peach.

THE PRODUCER
Approximately 800 farmers deliver cherry to the washing station, from the region, each farming small plots of 2–3 hectares (about 7 acres) at an average of 2,200+ meters. This lot consists of Kurume, Wolisho, and several other landrace varieties.

THE PROCESS
A honey process is a hybrid washed process with a fermentation stage that leaves the mucilage on the seed, graded in four levels (white, yellow, red, black): the more mucilage contact and fermentation time, the darker the gradient. Flower Child commissioned a middle-of-the-spectrum yellow honey, letting the acidity shine alongside the fruit-forward sweetness. The cherries are lightly de-pulped and dry-fermented in tanks for 2 days, washed, then placed on raised beds, where the parchment is moved every day for 10–14 days of drying, depending on the weather.

The yellow-honey balance of mucilage and a 2-day dry fermentation is the defining choice. It's what builds the syrupy sweetness while keeping a sparkle of acidity.

THE CUP
Fruit-forward and syrupy: ripe peach, mango, and tropical juice lead, with melon, berry, and jammy peach in a viscous body, finishing on sweet florals and a sparkle of brightness. An elegant dessert beverage.

Flavour Notes
🍑 Ripe Peach 🥭 Mango 🧃 Tropical Juice