
Danche
Danche
Sweet, gentle and perfumed. Look for honey and violets with complex fruit flavours like guava and lemon zest.
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- Our whole bean coffee is nitrogen flushed to prolong freshness.
- 250g bags made from post-consumer recycled plastic.
Product information
Product information

The latest harvest from Ethiopia is with us! We’re beginning the season with the release of an old staff favourite, this incredibly floral and potent coffee from Danche in Chelbesa.
The Farmers
Around 600 smallholder coffee farmers in the Chelbesa kebele have contributed towards this lot. The cultivars are Wolisho, Dega & Kurume, which are tended to completely organically in a semi-forest system. Each farmer has between 0.5 and 2 hectares planted with coffee, amidst bananas and natural shade trees, with 1,500 to 2,400 coffee trees per hectare. Each tree only produces around 3kg of coffee fruit per season, which is delivered on foot or by mule to the Danche washing station.
The Washing Station & Their Approach
Situated at 2,160 metres the Danche wet mill was established in 2019 and is managed by Girum Assefa. It is one of two sites that Snap Coffees are operating in the Chelbesa kebele, the other being Worka washing station. After depulping the received coffee cherries using an Agaarde disc pulper the coffee is fermented under cool water in ceramic tiled tanks for 72 hours, before washing and grading in long channels. The seeds are effectively graded by density in these channels and will be graded again once fully dried when the quality is refined at the dry mill using vibrating density sorting tables. It makes for a reliable product for us to roast, as the seeds are small and compact yet very dense, allowing an efficient transfer of heat through each seed and the entire batch.
The Exporter
Snap Coffee was established in 2008 by Negusse Debela Weldyes and the group are responsible for the running and operation of several coffee washing stations which feature in our coffee range each year. Snap oversee the processing facilities but also take on the task of dispensing agricultural knowledge to their contributing farmers. Steps such as tiling fermentation tanks to enable better cleaning, as well as implementing strict drying protocols, have gone long ways to improving the clarity, cleanliness and longevity of the coffees’ characteristics. They are committed to recycling waste by-products from coffee processing at each of their stations where they have also built schools and provided them with computing equipment from the other arm of their business which is in electronics. They have improved the roads to streamline access to the washing stations and have built health clinics to provide access to better healthcare for their contributing farmers as well. The lots of dried parchment are dry milled at Snap’s own processing and warehousing facility. This affords the group even more control and traceability over the final exportable product that we get to work with, leading to improved consistency and uniformity.
We have visited Snap’s cupping lab and dry mill in Addis Ababa and connected with Negusse and his son Amanuel, who has taken on an operational role at Snap Coffee. Last year Amanuel came to visit us in our roastery and we were able to show him all of the processes we undertake to ensure we handle Snap’s, and other producers’, coffees with respect and care.
Brew Recipe
Brew Recipe
Filter Brewing
Brew Ratio: 60g/L
Water Temperature: 100°C
Grind: Medium-fine
Pourover Recipe
Dose: 18g
Brew Water: 300g
Grind Size: Similar to caster sugar
Bloom: 50g water for 30 seconds
Pours: 50g every 30 seconds
Brew Time: Final pour at 3:00, total drawdown by 3:30
Shipping and returns
Shipping and returns
Available as whole bean or pre-ground. All our whole bean coffee is packed in 250g, nitrogen flushed and valved bags. Pre-ground coffee is ground to order and desptached same working day. For more information on shipping, see our Shipping page.


Coffee composition
Place
Chelbesa, Gedeo, SNNPR, Ethiopia
Palate
Honey, lemon zest, violets
Producer
600 smallholders in Chelbesa
Current composition
Wolisho, Dega & Kurume cultivars. Organically grown, 72hrs wet fermentation, fully washed, dried on raised beds.
So glad that this coffee is back, I remember it from last year and was one of my favorites! Have tried from a few other roasters but workshop roasts it the best. Delicious