7th December
Burundi Gitwe
Roastery: Populus Coffee
Altitude: 1 800 – 2 050 m. n. m.
Variety: Red Bourbon
Processing: Washed
Taste profile
pomegranate, lemon, almond
Origin
The founders of Long Miles, Ben and Kristy, come from the USA. They 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. With the understanding of the need for transparency and great coffee, they started Long Miles Coffee as a farmer-driven coffee production model in 2013. In their first coffee season, they worked with just fifty coffee farmers. They now work with over 5,500 coffee-farming families on eleven unique hills within Burundi, with expansion efforts underway into Uganda and Kenya.
Recipe:
Method: Hario Dripper V60
Water temperature: 93 °C
Coffee amount: 20 g
Brew time: 2:30
0:00 – 60 g bloom (mix)
0:30 – slowly pour by circular motions until 300 grams