Burundi Masha Kayanza Microlot
Burundi Masha Kayanza Microlot coffee bag with a brewed cup, styled
Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi
Coffee drying at Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi
Smallholder farmers at Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi
Burundi Masha Kayanza Microlot
Burundi Masha Kayanza Microlot coffee bag with a brewed cup, styled
Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi
Coffee drying at Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi
Smallholder farmers at Masha washing station, Kayanza, Burundi

Burundi Masha Kayanza Microlot

orange jam, brown sugar, dried apple
$23.00

Roasted fresh weekly.

Size (Whole Bean) 250 g

Only 10 left

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Process WashedRoast Light

Orange jam, and the good kind of quiet.

Kayanza, Burundi. Masha washing station, fully washed Bourbon, 1,672 meters.

It arrives like a room that's already warm when you walk in. The brown sugar sweetness sits in the middle and stays there. Nothing sharp, nothing shouted, just a perfect morning cup.

Limited Release. Roasted to order.

Origin: Kayanza, Burundi
Farm: Masha Washing Station
Producer: 3,200+ smallholder farmers
Elevation: 1,672 MASL
Varietal: Bourbon
Processing: Fully Washed
Score: 87 points

Masha washing station serves more than 3,200 smallholder farmers in Kayanza. The average family works roughly a tenth of a hectare, about 297 trees, and coffee is what their year depends on. Because holdings are that small, Burundian microlots are blended from the daylots of a whole community rather than traced back to one farm. What you are tasting is the work of thousands of people who each brought a basket.

The station has not had an easy history. In 1997, during the political conflict in Burundi, rebels burned the storage facility and the main house to the ground. It was rebuilt. The hill it stands on, Gihororo, is named for the imihororo trees the community weaves its traditional clothing from.

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