Burundi - Commune Mutambu

Mutambu is a Burundi that excels at a variety of brew methods.Light, City roasts show quite a bit of dimension with a soft sweetness and accented by complex baking spices. The types of flavor notes found in this as a lighter roast are that of clove, cinnamon, and loose leaf black tea.

This lot is from Commune Mutambu region, near the Monge Nature Reserve in Bujumbura. It's comprised of coffee from two different wet mills, Migoti and Murambi, and between them serve the hilltop communities ("Collines") of Murambi, Rugembe, Masenga and Migoti. The farms stretch up to more than 2000 meters above sea level, altitude that's conducive to Bourbon, the dominant cultivar in Burundi. The coffee is wet-processed using a 3-disc depulper, fermented with water ,and graded in long cement washing channels where the remaining coffee fruit ("mucilage") is washed away and underripe coffee is removed. Before drying on long, raised drying beds, the wet parchment drip-dries on small screens where any physical defects that can be identified by sight are removed by hand.