MONT58 Ethiopia Single Origin Coffee Beans

Expect your freshly roasted beans to arrive within 2-3 days.

The Fragrant Complexity of Jimma

This award-winning Ethiopian coffee is a testament to the origin's legendary heritage. Sourced directly from a pioneering farmer in the West, this coffee delivers a rare depth: Complex, Fragrant, and Deep, with powerful aromatics and a clean, vibrant cup character.

Flavour Profile & Roast Details

This Medium Roast is designed to fully express the complexity and floral elegance typical of the Jimma region.

• Taste: Complex, Fragrant, Deep
• Roast: Medium
• Strength: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5

Origin & Farm: The Pioneering Work of Mustefa Abakeno

This is a true single-producer lot, ensuring exceptional traceability and quality control from the very start.

• The Farmer: This coffee comes directly from Mustefa Abakeno, a highly respected and innovative smallholder farmer in the Jimma Zone of Western Ethiopia. Mustefa manages his own 18-hectare farm (and has acquired others) near Agaro. He is one of the key players who capitalised on regulatory changes in 2018 to export directly, ensuring better returns for his community.

• Altitude & Varietals: The farm and processing mill are located at a lofty 2,040 metres above sea level (masl). The coffee trees are planted with various selections from the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre (JARC). These JARC varietals (like 74110 and 74112) are renowned for their disease resistance and expressive aromatic profiles, which contribute to the coffee's famed complexity.

• The Terroir: The cool, high-altitude climate of the Jimma area forces the cherries to mature slowly, increasing their density and the concentration of the unique sugars that define this exceptional Ethiopian profile.

Farming Process: Precision Processing (Washed & Natural)

Mustefa Abakeno is known for his dedication to processing excellence, running a small wet mill that serves his farm and that of his neighbours (outgrowers).

• Selective Harvesting: All coffee is meticulously selectively hand-picked before being processed.

• Processing Method: Mustefa employs a sophisticated dual-processing approach:

  • Half of his harvest is processed using a small disk pulper for a clean Washed profile.

  • The other half is dried as a Natural, laid out on raised beds near his house. (This Natural Process is responsible for the intense Complex and Fragrant notes of dark berries and stone fruit.)

• Quality Control: Mustefa keeps his farm's coffee separate from his outgrowers' lots, and all the drying is done on raised beds, often semi-shaded. This controlled drying ensures uniform moisture and flavour integrity, contributing to the Grade 1 (highest quality) classification for the finest Ethiopian coffees.

Recommended Brew Methods

The Medium Roast and Natural-heavy profile of this Ethiopian coffee shine best when methods are used that highlight its intense aromatics and vibrant, deep fruit complexity.

• Pour-Over (V60, Chemex): Use a Medium grind to showcase the Fragrant and Complex aromatics and clean, bright finish. Use water up to 96°C for optimal extraction.

• Aeropress: Use a Medium-Fine grind and a slightly longer immersion time (around 1:30 minutes) to create a syrupy, deep body that truly carries the complex fruit and floral sweetness. This method is excellent for bringing out the "Deep" characteristic.

• Batch Brew / Filter: Use a Medium grind for an excellent, vibrant, all-day coffee. It delivers a clean, sweet cup that is far more complex than a typical filter coffee.

About The Roastery

Mont58 Coffee is the passion project of husband-and-wife team, Shai and Maya. Their journey began quite literally at home in 2018, when they took the plunge and jacked in their full-time jobs to start roasting coffee in a humble garden shed in South-East London. Shai, whose passion for coffee was sparked by childhood memories of drinking cardamom-spiced coffee with his grandfather, honed his craft on a tiny 250g machine.

This small-batch venture quickly took off, especially during the lockdown when the local community wholeheartedly embraced their door-to-door, bike-delivered coffee.

While they have since scaled up to a larger roastery in Ashford, Kent, and opened further sites, the spirit of that original shed, small business, big heart, remains central to their award-winning, ethical, and community-focused mission. It's a proper 'started from the ground up' success story, but with significantly better beans.