The Barn - Burundi Bumba Hill Washed Filter 250 g

Specialty-grade whole-bean coffee from Burundi, roasted by The Barn in Germany. Light roast – perfect for all pour-over brewing methods: from drip, Chemex, AeroPress, and French Press to other alternative brews and batch brewers! Flavor notes: pomegranate and black tea.

Origin: Burundi

Region: Kayanza

Farm: Long Miles Project

Variety: Bourbon

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1700 m a.s.l.

Cupping score: 88 / 10 

THE CUP

We love the structure and flavour of coffees from Bumba Hill. This washed lot is elegant and silky, with bright pomegranate, black tea, and orange zest. Sweet notes of caramel and milk chocolate show great depth as it cools.

ABOUT THE FARM

Ben and Kristy Carlson moved to Burundi in 2011 and saw that both injustice and poor farming practices permeated the country's newly privatized coffee industry. They also saw that roasters around the world had a difficult time getting consistently great coffees from Burundi. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers and roasters' lives, Long Miles Coffee was born. Long Miles Project is a farmer-driven coffee production model. They work with coffee farming families on eleven unique hills within Burundi. Long Miles create traceable micro-lots that yield consistently great coffees while improving the livelihoods of the small holding farmers who grow them.

Here are three of the most important ways to do this:

1. The farmers who grow coffee on the eleven hills receive year-round agricultural assistance through one of the twenty-six Long Miles Coffee Scouts who are trained agronomists.

2. Long Miles pay higher prices for coffee cherries as well as annual premiums.

3. They strengthen relationships between roaster and farmer so they can serve coffee from a specific hill year after year.

THE PROCESS

The traditional Burundian process is fully washed: freshly harvested cherries are delivered by coffee farmers to the washing station, then floated and hand-sorted for ripeness upon arrival. The cherries are pulped and undergo a single fermentation process. Parchment spends around twelve hours dry fermenting, before the final washing that creates a clean, balanced profile.

ROASTER'S NOTE

Our latest from the Long Miles Project in Burundi - a farmer-focused producer working with some of the most remote coffee growers in the country. An elegant coffee with crisp fruit notes.