Description
This fully washed lot comes from smallholder farmers located on Murambi Hill, close by Migoti Washing Station.
Pontien Ntunzwenimana is majority owner of the Migoti Washing Station in Mutambu, Burundi and was born and lived through his childhood in Mutambu. The multi-generational coffee farmers in Pontien’s home community had all but abandoned coffee as a source of income due to the 12-year civil war (1993-2005) when their Arabica coffee trees were neglected and destroyed.
With peace in the country and a state-of-the-art coffee washing station that Pontien built in 2016, the local community has new-found hope for the future, and farmers are again investing in their coffee farms. Pontien’s six years of green coffee production in Mutambu (2016-2022) have proven the local coffee to be some of the best in Burundi. Migoti Coffee’s vision is to see the local coffee-growing community grow in health and economic prosperity, with quality coffee production as one of several entrepreneurial activities underway.
Tasting Notes: A lovely coffee! Clean, rich and sweet. A stand up lot from light to dark roasts. Lighter roasting will have a noticeable crisp lemony floral edge to it balanced with a nutty/chocolate tone. Dark roasts are strong and semi-sweet with a full body, complimenting roasty and smoky tones. Anywhere in the middle adds some cool & exotic soft fruit tones with hints of a nutty caramel sweetness. We couldn’t find a roast we didn’t like with these beans, if you roast lighter, just make sure you do not mind a little stronger citric component.
Roasting Notes: An easy coffee to roast, beautiful processing with medium to low chaff. We would recommend taking it a bit past first crack at a minimum. Right at first crack is a bit sharper limiting its audience, it will not take too much further development to flip them into wonderful caramel/chocolate tastes instead. Can still be a little sharper edged 24 hours after roasting but by day 3 was very smooth and defined.
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