{"product_id":"green-spring-natural-gibirinna-serto","title":"Green Spring Natural Gibirinna Serto","description":"\u003ch2\u003eAbout the Coffee\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGreen Spring is a collaboration between Mike Mamo and Ture Waji, two producers Subtext has been buying coffee from for five years. The station sits at 2,200 to 2,350 meters in the Sonkolle Kallato kebele of Guji, where it collects cherry from neighboring smallholder farmers who primarily grow Gibirinna 74110 and Serto 74112 varieties. Subtext purchased 600 kilograms from the total lot of 3,000 kilograms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGibirinna 74110 is short and compact with small leaves, cherries, and beans. The mother tree was selected in 1974 by the Jimma Agricultural Research Centre in Metu province for its resistance to Coffee Berry Disease. After development by JARC, it was released in 1979 and recommended for planting between 1,500 and 2,100 meters. Serto 74112 was also approved in 1974 as part of the same CBD-resistance program, with researchers searching the forests in the Illuababora zone for resistant mother trees. Both varieties are now widely distributed across Ethiopia's growing regions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCherry at Green Spring is dried on raised beds for 21 to 28 days. The team uses a moisture meter regularly throughout drying to determine when lots are properly finished. Producers receive 70 Ethiopian Birr per kilogram of cherry, with an FOB price of $4.85 per pound. Subtext paid $6.30 per pound for this lot, which scored 86 points on their cupping table.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch2\u003eAbout Subtext\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubtext roasts in one of Toronto's remaining industrial neighborhoods. Their aim is to push coffee quality as an alternative to the anonymization and commodification that has characterized mainstream coffee throughout history. They believe quality is a direct connection to agriculture, an acknowledgment of seasonality, micro-regionality, and the human labor behind each picked and processed cherry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is why Subtext doesn't blend coffee, rename coffees, or roast dark. They see these as practices that keep producers and their treatment veiled while holding quality standards shrouded in mystique meant to serve only the consuming world. Their roast philosophy is simple: maximize flavor complexity and balance while bringing out as much origin character as possible. They avoid any roast flavor in their profiling while ensuring enough development to avoid imbalanced cups.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSubtext employs advanced tools for analysis: frequent moisture and density readings of green coffee, sensitive thermocouple readings throughout roasts, hundreds of color readings to assess development and uniformity, and solubility testing of brewed profiles. Their roasts are calibrated to the second and degree, with minute changes constantly made based on blind evaluation. They use a ColorTrack to measure degree and consistency of development across production batches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Subtext was borne out of Boxcar Social (one of my favourite places to meet up with friends here in Toronto), during the pandemic. Since then, they've built out one of the more interesting and comprehensive coffee lineups in the country. Near and dear to me, they release an annual transparency report; each report is a thoughtful and honest analysis of the effort they put in to reducing the footprint of their coffee.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e- Dean, Director of Coffee\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Subtext","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43947961090108,"sku":null,"price":26.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/2880\/1852\/files\/unnamed_afb5e14c-00b4-4a01-8e52-48c2f8a34706.jpg?v=1770042648","url":"https:\/\/stillwatercoffee.ca\/products\/green-spring-natural-gibirinna-serto","provider":"Stillwater Coffee Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}