I uploaded many short videos from my December EthiopiaEthiopia, formerly known as Abyssinia, or a coffee cultivar: Ethiopia, or more specifically the Empire under Haile Selassie, was known as Abyssinia. The name is Latin, derived from... ...more excursion to youtube recently. Rather than put them together as a longer piece, it seemed nice to leave them as simple, short clips. This is at Michile Union Mill (a Union is a cooperative) and the women are sortingCoffee is sorted by size, density, and color in its preparation for export.: Sorting refers to several steps performed in the preparation of coffee for export. Coffee is... ...more the parchmentGreen coffee still in its outer shell, before dry-milling, is called Parchment coffee (pergamino). In the wet process, coffee is peeled, fermented, washed and then ready for drying... ...more coffee before it is hulled and the green bean extracted. Here’s our general youtube link. And here is a link to the complete Ethiopia photo travelog. -Tom
