Rwanda Gicumbi, Washed
- Regular price
- $19.00
- Sale price
- $19.00
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Red apple, toffee, green apple and lime
COFFEE PROFILE
This coffee is the perfect amount of zesty citrus and green apple crisp rolled in a confectionary sugar like core.
| TASTES LIKE | Red apple, toffee, green apple and lime |
| ROAST | Filter |
SOURCING
For this Washed Red Bourbon lot, the farmers bring their coffee cherries to the station, where they are hand sorted and separated. Only the ripe cherries are mechanically de-pulped. In concrete tanks, the coffee seeds get wet fermented for 12-18 hours. After this fermentation, coffee is thoroughly washed in concrete channels to remove any remaining mucilage. Then it rests on raised African beds where it is turned regularly every hour under the full sun for the first five days. Drying generally takes 12-21 days for the coffee to get down to the desired humidity percentage.
| PRODUCER | Nova Coffee |
| REGION | Gicumbi District |
| VARIETAL | Red Bourbon |
| PROCESS | Washed |
| ALTITUDE | 1800-2000masl |
Origin
Gicumbi District, Rwanda
Agnes Mukamushinja and Felix Hitayezu have been producing coffee for over 25 years, and since 2015 they have supported 2,880 smallholder coffee farmers in their community through their company Nova Coffee. They pride themselves on their ethically and socially responsible practices and have a solid commitment to gender equality, education and health for the farmers, their families and the communities. They finance housing for the least advantaged families and construct the infrastructure necessary to progress. Nova supplies trees to encourage more people to grow coffee and provides smallholders with vegetables to grow to eat or sell.
BREW GUIDE
How to get the best tasting cup
| Age Best Used | 10-24 days after roast |
| Dose | 20g |
| Water Amount | 300g |
| Temperature | 89-91°C |
| Bloom | 60g (40seconds) |
| Brew Duration | 2:00-3:00 |
| Pours | 5 pours (60g, 60g, 60g, 60g, 60g) |
| Freeze Date | 9-12 days after roast |