Sl.ow

Disco Biscuit, Ethiopia

200 d

Good for espresso

€15,00

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TASTING NOTES

  • Chocolate strawberry
  • Hot cross buns
  • Crispy M&Ms

VARIETY
  • Heirloom
PROCESSING METHOD

Natural

REGION

Sidamo, Great Rift Valley

ALTITUDE

1800-2036 m

MANUFACTURER

Smallholder farms, Hube

FOR THE COFFEE

Chocolate-dipped strawberry, a warm hot cross bun and the crunch of Crispy M&Ms. The pick 'n' mix counter, then the bakery on the way home.

A Grade 1 natural from more than 500 family farms around Hube, in Ethiopia's Sidamo region. Cherries are handpicked and dried whole on raised beds, turned by hand until they reach 11% moisture.

Roasted for espresso as part of our Espresso Program. Rich and playful as a shot, chocolate-milk sweet in a flat white.

More than 500 small family farms grow this coffee around Hube, in Ethiopia's Sidamo region. Here coffee is part of everyday life. Families have grown it for generations, handpicking ripe cherries at harvest and sharing the cup at gatherings as a gesture of friendship. Sidamo sits in the Great Rift Valley, a landscape of lush greenery, freshwater lakes and red clay soils. This lot grows at 1,800–2,036 metres, and the region's many microclimates mean coffees change from one town to the next. After picking, cherries are sorted and spread whole across raised beds, turned often to dry evenly. At around 11% moisture they move to the dry mill. Cofinet, our import partner, brought this lot to us.
Hube Smallholders · Sidamo,

ABOUT Sl.ow

SL.OW comes from Cambridge, a small town in New Zealand known as the Home of Champions due to the concentration of professional athletes and Olympians who train there. And it is precisely from sports that the bakery's story begins.

The founder Sam Dakin spent a large part of his life on two wheels as a professional track cyclist and represented New Zealand at two Olympics. Years in which everything is measured in hundredths of a second gradually led him to exactly the opposite idea – that outside of sports, he needed to slow down.

Coffee became his way of doing it. Not so much because of the caffeine, but because of the ritual itself – to make coffee, sit down, and for a little while not chase the next task.

In 2022, SL.OW Coffee Roasters was born from this idea. The beginning was quite literally small batch – Sam and Alex King roasted 1 kg on a Bullet in the garage of their apartment in Cambridge. Since then, SL.OW has grown quite a bit, and Jonte Wright has joined Sam, who also comes from professional sports after seven years in elite rowing in New Zealand.

Today, SL.OW works with a rotating selection of single origin coffees and small batches, focusing on clarity and a clearly recognizable taste in the cup. But coffee is only part of the reason we follow them. Music, design, fashion, and quite impressive packaging are also part of SL.OW – their idea is to build a brand that happens to make very good coffee too, rather than just another specialty coffee roastery.

The name probably makes more sense now.

The world moves fast. SL.OW down.

OUR COFFEE SELECTION

With Drekka , we embark on the adventure of roasting specialty coffee with a lot of enthusiasm and desire. As always, we will be uncompromising with selection and quality. #88pointsandabove

Taf Coffee , Athens, is the permanent bakery we have been working with for over five years. They are always present in our selection.

Every month we present one or more guest bakeries , because we believe that one should constantly try new coffees and roasting profiles from the best bakeries in Europe.