Catalyst Trade
Ethiopian Innovation Lots
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Innovation Lots Auction
On August 1, 2023, Catalyst Trade, partner producers, and auction platform M-Cultivo invite you to bid on up to 24 world-class lots from Ethiopia.
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Innovation Process Categories
Years of careful study, and countless trials make for a lot of data. We've arrived at three distinct process categories to help us, well... process it all.
Intrinsic
White, Red and Black Honey; Spontaneous Fermentation
Expressing the coffee’s inherent characteristics in as true a form as possible. While the process controls are finely tuned, it is the elements intrinsic to the coffee and the environment which play the biggest role in the ultimate flavor expressions.
Interval
Extended Fermentation and Limited, Ultra-Low and Zero Oxygen Natural
Carefully timed fermentation cycles and oxygen limitations, with the express purpose of enhancing certain characteristics found within the coffee
Here, we seek not to alter the inherent character of the coffee, but rather to focus intensity.
Symbiotic
Cherry co-fermentation, Cascara-Infused and Layered Fermentation
Building on a foundation of unique agroforestry and rich biodiversity we utilize coffee’s own products and by-products as fermentation tools with the express intent of targeting enzymatic reactions, creating distinctly enhanced flavor attributes.
The coffees featured in this sample set—representing the rarest, most-cherished lots in the world—were produced by the Catalyst Trade team through endless sundrenched hours of labor at rural Ethiopian washing stations and long days in dusty processing warehouses in Addis Ababa.