PRODUCER: Long Miles Coffee / Bumba Hill / Ninga Washing Station

LOCATION: Kayanza, Burundi

PROCESS: Honey

VARIETY: Bourbon

APRICOT, BROWN SUGAR, PLUM JAM

We are excited to be offering this lot from Long Miles Coffee. Long Miles seeks to address both the injustices and poor farming practices that permeated Burundi’s newly privatized coffee industry.

Bumba Hill is a region that is exceptionally difficult to access, requiring that one cross three rivers and two provincial borders to reach it. More poignantly, farmers working there have scarce access to water and electricity, often having to travel upwards of three hours by foot or bicycle to deliver their harvested cherries to the nearest washing station.

This coffee is honey-processed. In honey processing, the pulp (skin) and fruit are removed from the coffee cherry but leaving a thin layer of sticky mucilage vs in a washed process coffee, this mucilage would be cleaned off completely before drying and in natural processed coffees, the entire cherry skin is left on during drying.