Please be aware: these are raw, unroasted coffee beans, and are not suitable for consumption before being roasted.

For many, this is the real deal of the coffee world. These Ethiopian Yirgacheffe green coffee beans are sourced from coffee's birthplace, Ethiopia, where the plant grows natively in its purest form and is still found in garden farms, growing wild across the region. The cherries are hand-picked and sold in markets before being processed and selected at the mills, and local knowledge is key to finding the best crops at certain times of the year. Legend has it that coffee was first discovered in Ethiopia by a goat herder named Kaldi in the 9th century, when he noticed his goats behaving erratically after eating coffee cherries.

This Yirgacheffe is a hand-picked, top quality washed coffee, grown as 'Garden Coffee' by local smallholders. A truly hand grown, picked, washed and dried product, it allows small Ethiopian farmers to live and work with dignity. Once roasted, the beans display a distinctive yellow stripe, and it's always a top seller, bought again and again by returning customers.

For Ethiopian green coffee beans this pure, we recommend a paper filter brew once roasted, though it also pulls a mean espresso.