Medium Roast : Burundi : Microlot : Rubagabaga

12 oz

Tons of caramel with cooked blueberry and mild golden raisin flavors. Lots of sweetness, mild acidity.

Burundi microlots are selected out of the daylots created by various centralized washing stations, based on cup quality. Because the average farmer in Burundi owns 1/8–1/4 a hectare (~ 1/2 to 1 acre) of land, many smallholder farmers will deliver their fresh cherry to a washing station in order to be sorted and processed; microlots, then, are blended lots comprising coffees from many producers that express exquisite coffee, but are not generally traceable to the individual producers.

Rubagabaga
The Rubagabaga Washing Station is located in the Kayanza region of Burundi and is named after the hill it sits on. Many producers from around the region contribute to this washing station. Much of Rubagabaga’s fame and reputation comes from an abundance of banana trees in the region. The locals make use of "umubaga" which is the first juice squeezed out of the banana to brew beer, one of the many homemade brews the country so fondly makes.