Description
New 2020/21 crop!
A wonderful Natural Processed Rwanda coffee. To warn, this is a tasty coffee but Natural processing is very unique and this is unlike traditional Rwanda coffee. Much more fruit forward and winy. Natural fans will love it, Rwanda fans may or may not.
Rwanda Dukunde Kawa Musasa Mblima is sourced from family owned farms organized around the Musasa mill located near a gorilla habitat in the Gakenke district of Rwanda. Farm plots are so small that measurements are based on the numbers of trees, not area of land.
Farmers who process their coffee at the Musasa mill are members of the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, which started in 2000 with enough funds to build one wet mill. In the following years, the Dukunde Kawa Cooperative has built three more wet mills and completed construction of their own dry mill. More than 80 percent of the cooperative workforce is women, and producer-members have used earnings to improve their standards of living with investments in livestock, access to healthcare, and programs to protect the environment.
Tasting Notes: This coffee shines at a light to medium roast. Very clean cup, some hints of lemony acidity upfront, floral aromatics and very clear red fruit and berry tones in the cup. Although considered on the sweeter side, the fruitiness comes off a little dryer, more of a cascara like fruitiness. Very light roasts are a bit front loaded, not much of a chocolaty factor but wild, higher acidity and exotic. Medium to dark roasts build a smooth more chocolaty undertone, balances very nicely with the more fruit forward cup profile. Dark roasts themselves get a little smoky and roasty chocolaty factor but the fruitiness still comes through nicely making this a tasty cup from light to dark.
Roasting Notes: A higher chaff coffee that roasts a little two toned but well worth the effort to roast. Make sure everything gets through first crack for the lighter roasts or risk a more nutty cup profile. Medium roasts are the best starting point and well balanced, easy to drink and tasty. Make sure first crack is done, give it a couple seconds than cool it out. Setup helps smooth any rough more acidic or bakers chocolaty edge.
Reviews
There are no reviews yet.