Burundi Dry Process Colline Kigina

Cupping Notes:

This berry-toned dry process wields rustic sweet notes, and weighty bittersweetness that works well at a wide range of roast levels. Lower acidity leaves space for top notes like blackberry, and date. Good for espresso.

Region: Colline Kigina, Bujumbura
Processing: Dry Process (Natural)
Variety: Bourbon
Altitude: ~1700-2000+ masl
Certification: Farm Gate

Farm Description:

his coffee is from small farms situated around Colline Kigina, or Kigina "hill". The farmers from Kigina delivery their coffee to a mill on the neightboring hill, called Kinama. In fact, we have a dry process lot from Kinama hill as well right now that you can check out here. Both coffees are from the same group, headed by a man named Dan Brose, and his partner Poncien. The station is only producing dry process coffee at the moment, from their own sector, as well as from a few of the surrounding peaks, like Kigina. They are currently building out a wet mill too so that they can begin wet processing too, hopefully starting next year. They planned to start last year, but there was a huge fuel shortage to run their diesel generator, and there is no grid power in this part of Nyabiraba. Kigina farms start around 1700 meters above sea level, and stretch up toward the 2000 mark. We were impressed by the fruit-forward, rustic cups this dry process coffee produced, and found it to be very flexible in the roaster.

Description from Coffee Shrub.