Ethiopia Misty Valley Yirgacheffe Ethiopia: Misty Valley, Yirgacheffe

My wife and I have only been brewing for a year, but we bought this coffee based on the review. We were also stunned by the complexity of the coffee. It was really true that you can taste all of those undertones. We were very very impressed. My wife is a Columbian lover, myself lately into Costa Rican, but we both rank this one in our top three! Get it but don't roast to the second crack as it is better to light roast and let it sit about 4 days.

Wonderful Ethiopian natural. Tastes like Brookside blueberry chocolate. Light-medium roast. City/City+ 5:00 yellow 9:30 FC +2:30 past FC to end at 212C A must try!

I love it, but I had to figure out what I was doing wrong with my roast profile first. I had read about the wow-factor blueberry flavor, and my first attempt at roasting it resulted in a muddy blueberry-floral hit with plenty of sweetness, but not the acid to balance it out. A hotter start, with a shorter roast cleaned up the flavor significantly. For those with the Gene Cafe roaster, here was the profile used: 8 oz, 227 grams starting, 7.0 oz 199 grams weight after roasting (12.5% loss). Pre-warm the empty drum for 5 minutes at 392 F. Rapidly add your beans and re-insert the drum into the Gene Cafe. (be quick!). Clear your kitchen timer and start timer and the roast at 392 F. (200 C) Stay at this temperature for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes have elapsed, raise the temperature to 464 F (240C). First pop of first Crack will be likely heard at about 10:30 on the kitchen timer, Reduce temperature to 437 F (225C) one minute ten seconds after the first pop of first crack is heard. (For me, the temp was lowered at 11 minutes 40 seconds into roast). Continue at this temperature until Full-City roast is reached (About 13 minutes and 30 seconds). Rapidly cool externally to the Gene Cafe to stop the roast process. I include this because the Gene Cafe roasts a bit differnt than classical drum roasters, so the roast profile is tuned for the Gene Cafe Roaster.

Very fruity and bright, as I expected from a Yirgacheffe. It was the body and finish that I was disappointed in. I'll go back to the drawing board on this one. Impressive coffee but contains quite a few defects in the bag I got. Cupping it yielded all of the fruit and acidity I expect but odd, nutty popcorn flavors as well.

Wonderfull flavor. Full body, not acidic, chocolate. Roasters, pay attention when you roast this the first time. I mean, sit there and watch. That is the only way you are going to get it right the first time. Compared to the beans I have mostly been using this one develops more quickly and at a lower temp. If you have auto roast settings for other beans you may burn these and wipe out some of the flavors. I was getting full color and some oil well before reaching the temp that I usually finish at. All in all, I cut the roasting process short by a few mintutes and switched to cooling before reaching what is normally my final temp.

Rich E. - Sad to say I've now done 4 roasts of Misty and no fruit or floral. Today's roast (9/17/22) after cooling I tried in an aeropress and even with cream ended up dumping out 1/2 the cup. I've been roasting about 15 yrs and love Ethiopian's but this has been very disappointing now 1/2 way thru a 5# bag. In the meantime I've done a couple Kenya's that have been great. Using a drum w/3 TC's into artisan. Not sure what to try next to salvage something from what is left. Argh!

Wonderful Ethiopian Natural. Tastes like Brookside blueberry chocolate. City+ 210 C. A must try.

This is a good quality Yirgacheffe. The beans were a good size and uniform for an Ethiopian, so they roasted evenly, which I really liked. I roasted to a medium roast. I was hoping that it would be more fruity since it's a natural processed coffee but that wasn't the case with my small sample batch. If you are looking for more fruit flavor, I recommend the Ethiopia Organic Sidamo Shantawene Natural G1 instead.

It had been years since I roasted this coffee. I thought I'd try it again and meh. There are many coffees that appeal to me, this is not one. I guess my palate doesn't find this one as fantastic as other reviewers. I enjoy Indian (Monsoon Malabar in particular), Papua New Guinea, Brazil, and Vietnamese coffees. .

So just got this bean thanks to cyber Monday sale. Been home roasting 3 years now. 100% blueberry muffin and chocolate notes. Super sweet and tasty. Ethiopians can be tricky. This one seems to be one that has small room for error to get it right. Definitely city roast to hit all the tasting notes but taste is subjective so folks should bear in mind that but tasting notes maybe what’s on the nose as well. This bean is fantastic. 11 minute roast dropped 30 seconds into rolling first crack seems counterintuitive I know but…….48 hrs later boom!!!! Glad I got ten lbs yes yirgs are more citrus and floral not fruit but that also depends on the region and the region these beans come from are noted for Sweet, very fruity and chocolate finish. Folks that are roasting well up to and into second crack will roast away a lot of what makes this bean special. Reminds me of a chocolatey blueberry with a sweet muffin note from halo bariti from 12 years ago will definitely buy this again thanks CBC I’m a newer customer to you but your beans have been exquisite so far thank you

Misty Valley is always a very good choice in beans. Very solid in it's consistency. I enjoy a darker roast and it great. My family enjoys just past the first crack and it's great that way too. Use as espresso or as a brew coffee. You can do it all with the MV Yirgacheffe. We love it. Always want to have some on hand.

So smooth and the aftertaste nice. Blueberry muffin creamy mellow taste. My new favorite coffee.

My favorite Ethiopian so far. The fruit flavors (mostly blueberry) hold on a lot longer into the roast than other Ethiopians I have done. I roasted this one about 30 seconds past rolling FC for a nice medium and the blueberries held strong. Even in a blend with 25% Misty and 75% darker roast Brazil for body the blueberries were still very dominant in the cup. Definitely will be ordering more.

This is definitely some of the best coffee I’ve ever had. Been roasting for over a year now. I typically roast a coffee supreme and just finished a 25 pound bag of that so decided to try something new. Bought a lot of samples from this company and I have to say all of them were great. I went with a few of the CBC blends as well as Costa Rican blends and a few from India and Mexico. Haven’t tried them all but this one is deff my favorite so far. Decided to try this blend mainly after seeing an episode on Joe Rogans podcast that mentioned Ethiopia as the origin of coffee. Totally makes sense now. This is like the OG kush of coffee !

I'm relatively new to home roasting and I use a air popcorn popper. This coffee tastes like none of the other green beans I've sampled so far; it's a very distinct taste with strong blueberry and black cherry notes. It is delicious black. I roast until I hear the beginning of the second crack. Will try to go lighter.

Part of the sample pack and I used it to learn more about my Hottop K2+ . Roasted it to Full City to see what it do as a dark roast. (Dropped it at 11:24/399F). Let it sit for 3 days. It came out with great body and a unsweetened cocoa aftertaste (very pleasant). Of all the Ethiopia coffees that I have tried from CBC and their competitors, this is the one I like the best. . Based on the other reviews, I will try to do this at a lighter roast level and see where that takes me. I will buy more to share with family & friends. Cheers! DaveCx

I have tried roasting this bean many different ways and can't seem to find a sweet spot for the roast. Its good, but not $8.25 a pound good. Im roasting it light, but it just never tastes great.. maybe Im doing something wrong.

This might be my favorite of all that I have tried. I have been roasting a little over 2 years and have tried many different varieties and this one I keep on hand as a personal preference. I roast in a sr800 and go about 1 minute past first crack and it is good every time. It does have a very distinct taste.

You guys get me every year. Every year since the first epic lot of Misty Valley in 2007, I keep hoping. I read "blueberry" as the first word in your cupping notes and I hope it's even close to that 2007 lot, which was a for real blueberry bomb that produced excellent results across a wide variety of roasts and which ruined me forever. Every year I read the reviews, cross my fingers, and order some. Every year disappoints. It's not that it's bad coffee. It's really pretty good, but it's just not up to par with the original. Maybe I'm a sucker. Maybe hope just dies slowly. Maybe this is the last year for me.

Roasted a minute or two into a completed FC, was outstanding! No bitterness but smooth and flavorful. A keeper in my rotation!!

Todd I roast brew and espresso with this bean. It is delicious. It is my families favorite. I will roast darker for brew and just past first crack for espresso. It is always a great cup of coffee. I buy it every time I run out and it is in stock. You can't go wrong with this one.

…if I could only, ever, for the rest of my life on this great green earth drink one coffee… it would be Yirgacheffe. It is a wonder and I never grow tired of it.

I don't give hardly any 5 star reviews but to me this coffee is right up there. I do a medium roast at around 390 to 400 degrees until first crack. I have a SR540 air roaster set at 6-8-6 to start. This coffee was smooth and not acidic. I enjoyed the flavor. No bad after taste. It is on my top 10 list.

Great Yirg. Roasted to full city. Fantastic range of fruity notes with excellent body and lingering pleasant afternoons!

Joseph Giammarinaro Excellent Coffee! Aromatic, wonderful!

Holy fruit salad Batman! I very much enjoy the fruitier notes so I am a big fan of this one. The roasting process wasn't as aromatic as I thought it would've been given the tasting notes, but still a wonderfully interesting cup. I took my first batch to City+ with good results. The dry fragrance was clearly of the blueberry nature, which I'm a fan of. The Americano was my favorite, emphasizing the blueberry and strawberry, though I would describe it as more of a general "berry" flavor overall. The pour over emphasized the lemon-like citric acidity along with the floral and chocolate. Overall a brighter tone than the Americano. The AeroPress was decent in that it highlighted just the blueberry, but without a super heavy or syrupy body, it was missing the pizazz with this method IMO. Finally, the Flat White was okay, but my least favorite. The milk muted the flavors so much that they were all but lost.

VERY GOOD.

Ordered this Ethiopia Misty Valley Yirgacheffe Natural the third time now, first order was 1/2lb, second order was 5lb, the third order was 10lb. You can tell how I prefer this now.

Ordered ten pounds based on the reviews raving about the berry (specifically blueberry) notes. Maybe I was sent some other beans by mistake. Nary a berry flavor of any sort in seven different roasts so far. I'm a twenty year home roaster who has been chasing these flavors since my first good harar horse fifteen or so years ago, so I'm not blowing smoke, like some of the reviewers here clearly are, assuming they got the same beans I did. I even got out the old heat gun for good measure to do a HGSB roast for old times sake. Nothin. Decent beans, not as described.

Quite different flavor profile from the Indonesian Bali Hai Decaf that was purchased at the same time. Roasted to a City++ roast as we prefer a dark roast but did not want to kill the profile by over-roasting. My taste "pallet" is not the most sensitive to all the subtleties of a complex coffee, but my wife and I both would purchase this again.

Best coffee I roasted over the years. City+ level. Low Acidity. Very complex. Blueberry is dominant note. Will buy again.

When I roasted this coffee medium it had a pleasant lemony sweetness that I enjoyed. Medium dark roast to me had a chocolaty flavor which I also enjoyed. I would buy this coffee again.

Another excellent offering from CBC. The green coffee bean is small and has a clean grassy nose. The beans were clean, no damage. Roasted between 1st and 2nd crack. The roasted beans smells like chocolate covered strawberries and blueberries. I am a fan of Ethiopian Yirgacheffe and Ethiopia Misty Valley Yirgacheffe Natural exceeds all my expectations. Also makes a excellent blend 1:1 with Colombia Don Enrique Reserve.

This is a great Ethiopian coffee, that I enjoy with a light roast in an espresso. The taste seems to remind one of chocolate a bit, with a very slightly sweet aftertaste. Highly recommended.

I'm a fan of natural/dry process coffee, so this is a hit with me. Still trying to figure out exactly the best roast profile, but everyone should have a Yirgacheefe to compare with other City roast favorites. I prefer the Ethiopian Sidamo region coffees (Got spoiled by Hamasho Village single source ... can't find that now), but that's the only reason for less than 5 stars. It might turn out to be YOUR favorite. Has moderate fruity acid bite when served very hot, but smooths out as it cools in the cup.

Misty Valley is one of my all time favorite coffees to roast. It is beautifully prepped, and roasts more evenly than many Ethiopian coffees. The flavor notes vary from year to year. This year's iteration gives me the welcome blueberry like essences, and as days go by a nice light cocoa...as roasted in my Fresh Roast SR800 I purchased here. I recommend a light medium, but of course as they say, YMMV. Delicious!

Very smooth taste a favorite

Yirgscheffe coffees are a favorite of mine. And it seems over the years, a lot of other people's favorite. A great drinker, a fairly mellow body. I like to take it to a darker roast, FC+. Seems at this roast is at its smoothest, and most chocolate enhanced. Some sweeter, dark red fruit essences.

Tried about 15 different types of beans so far and these are by far my favorite - just re upped on another 20 pounds !

The best!!

I really like this coffee! I do it dark into second crack. I have reordered this several times and use it in pour overs and espressos.

Got this in the Ethiopia sampler pack, so I only had a half pound to work with, and therefore didn't have the opportunity to properly dial in the roast profile. As a city roast, it has a medium body with a citric acidity and a hint of berries and chocolate. At FC and FC+ it lost pretty much all of the citrus and was very chocolate forward with hints of dried berries (strawberries?) with a huge syrupy body. None of my roasts really "wowed" me, but were still drinkable, and could probably benefit from more tinkering.

I am new to roasting and have tried numerous beans and roasts. This is the one I went and reordered in a 3 pound bag because I loved it. I roasted into 2nd crack and it is a great dark.

This coffee is a bit finicky to roast. However, if you get it just right, you are rewarded by a fruit forward (blueberry) coffee with chocolate base. Works well as espresso and holds up in milk. I have achieved this in a popcorn popper once or twice (don’t know how) and in my hottop more consistently by dropping in at around 150C and removing just at the end of first crack. However, get the roast wrong and it can be blah or downright musty.

I have never tried a coffee with so much blue berry flavor. Spectacular! Even though it has a lot of berry flavor is still has a deep flavor too. It needs to rest 3 days for more balanced flavor.

I read that this bean, when properly roasted, suggests blueberries. I thought that sounded interesting, so I tried it. It has since become one of two beans that I will always try to keep on hand. Others may come and go, but this is a keeper for me.

This is one of my favorite coffees. I love it with oatmilk. It has a complex and satisfying flavor. I drink it almost every day.

First roast was to a light/med roast. Taste and aroma are amazing! Fruity, light chocolate, bright.. Awesome cup! Love this bean!

I tend to roast right to second crack. (The rest of my household doesn’t enjoy light roasts.) So I tend to look for brands that retain as much of their fruity or nutty notes up to SC. This coffee is quite good, but I think it lost those fruity notes mentioned in the description when roasted darker. Still, it’s quite good and I think if not roasted past a medium level, it will likely retain much more of those flavor notes. So I’m giving it a 4.

This is an exceptionally clean full natural. It is balanced and has great floral and fruit profile as described along with a very nice body. I am not a fan of naturals as I prefer a clean cup but I am buying an extra 5 lbs of this as it's a keeper that I want to share with friends via USPS. I have brewed it in V60 and it was awesome. It was also amazing in the Aeropress and makes an excellent milk drink.

This is my favorite offering from Coffee Bean Corral so far. I'm a coffee snob, but I'm not a coffee expert. I know what I like, and I like Ethiopian beans, and from Kenya, and the natural processing because it leaves a residual Bourbon like flavor that I can't get enough of. They say to roast these light, but I think much more flavor come through when roasted to second crack. The friendly small-shop service is the best I've experienced, making me a loyal customer.

Well, this just became my go-to coffee! I’ve tried other Ethiopian coffees recently that were absolutely fantastic - the Shantawene Sidamo and the Kayon Mtn Guji G1 - both of them made me want to try this one, and now I know why it’s so world-renowned. In my opinion, it makes the perfect cup of coffee. Checks all the boxes, so to speak. Before this, my go-to was Señora Fihor’s masterpiece, the Honduras 18-Rabbit Natural. That has now become my #2 thanks to this amazing coffee.

it tastes great.

First origin I've tried based off altitude, I was not disappointed! I roasted my beans on my cast iron a bit after the second crack while constantly whisking. I love the light aromatic flavors in this coffee. It's complex in flavor and very smooth. I brew my coffee with a Bonavita on its pre-infusion mode for my freshly roasted coffees. I will definitely buy this again! Steph

Should have followed your advice of trying the 1/2 sampler before buying the 3 pounds. Don't like the "blueberry" taste or smell at all. Only roasted one batch so far, in time I'll try again.

Roasted until just after first crack stopped. I was floored by the overwhelmed and pleasant chocolate notes. The finish was perfect. One of my favorite beans and this was my favorite purchase so far.

BLUEBERRY ..... medium roast 450 deg rolling basket air fryer 35 minutes - 24 to 48 hour rest .... fine grind... 4 minute french press - blueberry.. not syrup sugar blueberry... but a light natural essence or as one other reviewer said .. muffin tone. You can smell it in the aroma too. Not everybody tastes it the first time, not all roast batches are strong... but when you get a strong batch... WOW... the lingering coffee flavor is like bakers chocolate which could be earthy to some. It seems the roast needs 24 to 48 hours to really come out. Being a medium roast .. and lighter roasting is good too.. its going to zing you out... nice caffeine punch, be ready for that. Now when I order coffee at Denny's .. I only do so to warm my hands.

This is a fine example of dry processed Yirgacheffe. Complexity and aroma are even better than we expected. As close to a really great Yemen as I've ever had. Fantastic!

I roast regularly for friends and family, and this one is the biggest hit of any bean I've sent to people. I get people asking for it non-stop. As others have said, it's quite complex, even compared to Ethiopia Natural Process coffees. A wonderful coffee!

Absolutely fantastic! First crack at 465° F_4/9/7 Started cool down at 510° F_ 4/9/8 Dark and rich color.

This bean is one of my favorites, hands down! The natural processing provides a very pronounced berry quality that has been consistent over my many purchases, and is unlike any other coffee on the market. This Yirgacheffe is it's own food group and is better lighter than over-roasted.

This is a wonderful example of a very complex cup of coffee. From your initial sip all the way through the cooling cup you will enjoy the many aspects it has to offer. I’ve found that my preferred roast level is about half way between first and second crack. I have done both city and full city plus roasts also and they too are very good. I will purchase more of this coffee and I believe you would find it to your liking.

Just recently starting roasting at home and the Misty Valley Yirgacheffe is my favorite thus far! The large uniform beans roast very evenly. Amazing complexity of flavors and aroma.