Queen City Coffee - Gogogu Natural Ethiopia (12oz.)
About The Product: From the misty highlands of Uraga Woreda in Ethiopia’s Guji Zone comes a natural-processed gem bursting with playful fruit character. This Grade 1 natural processed lot is grown between 2200–2310 meters above sea level in the village of Gogogu, where fertile red-brown clay soil and cool high-elevation air create ideal conditions for slow coffee maturation and intense flavor development.
Queen City sourced this coffee from their friend Kidane Teklu of Leafy Coffee, a Denver-based importer with deep roots in Ethiopia. Kidane’s journey from computer engineer to agricultural entrepreneur is a story of full-circle purpose. After 15+ years in IT, he returned to Ethiopia to invest in sustainable farming and rural development. Today, through his partnerships with respected regional exporters like HAI PLC, Kidane brings meticulously sourced Ethiopian coffees to roasters across Colorado and beyond.
About The Company: We believe that honest relationships, from farmers to consumers, achieve an equitable and sustainable coffee supply chain. In many ways, Queen City started in the mid-2000s while we worked, researched, and played in rural Africa. From Zimbabwe to Rwanda, we spent nearly a decade coordinating humanitarian programs, organizing research projects, and kicking around on humble soccer fields with friends. We learned about community in Africa — real, honest community.
Life eventually brought us back to our roots, back to Colorado and the great city of Denver. Along the way, we indulged our passion for coffee by moonlighting as baristas and roasters, and this made our next project an easy progression — we love our farmer friends + we love our city, the Queen City of the Plains + we love coffee — so we started a company that combines all these things!
Collective coffee means we’re doing this together — we have real, tangible connection with our coffee farmers; we know the conditions of their production; we then small-batch roast their coffee in the city we love and we proudly serve it in Denver’s historic Baker neighborhood. We believe everyone is welcome to this ragtag group because good coffee should build the collective good.