What is the long-term coffee treatment plan for the champion water wash coffee field in Plundikuza?

Gattu Kuza Champion washing Field

This batch is obtained from the Gatuza Gatukuza washing site, located in Ngozi province in Burundi, which is slightly farther away than the Cajanza Water washing site (Kayanza) of the long range Project (Long Miles).

Katukuza was established quite early, completed in 2008, but there was a significant improvement in quality in 2019. For the first time, they began to distinguish the daily batches, dividing the coffee areas from different farms into different batches, and the staff of the washing plant also tested different batches every day, hoping to find a model for creating the highest quality, and these processes proved to be rewarding. Gattukuza won the Burundian Cup of Excellence Cup in 2019, with an international score of 90.13. There are two fresh fruit collection troughs in Gatokuza. Before the fermentation process, the staff of the washing plant will first select the fresh fruit, then peel the fruit through two large peeling machines and enter nine dry fermentation tanks.

Similar to most washed coffee in Burundi, peeled fresh fruit seeds are fermented without water for eight hours, and then washed with "foot tread", that is, the staff trample with their feet after adding water to ensure that the fermented pectin is removed.

Then the coffee is sent to nine wet fermentation tanks, and this time it is fermented with water. After the fermentation is completed, the coffee is screened in the ditch according to the density. Before going to the sun bed, the coffee is selected manually again. Gatukuza uses traditional African tanning beds, which can extend the sun time to 14 to 21 days.

This batch is the driest Brandi coffee tried by La Cabra this year, with crisp red currant acid and thick cicada honey.

Sweet, plus the typical scented tail of Bulongdi grass.

Long-distance Coffee Project

The long-range Coffee Project, launched by the Carsons Ben and Kristy Carlson, began in 2013 to raise the standard of premium coffee.

Long distance plans to work with more than 4,500 individual coffee farmers, most of whom live around two central washing plants. The first washing plant they built was Bukeye, and the second was Heiza.

Ben and Kristi Carlson Carson, an American couple, moved to Burundi with their children and cherished the dream of establishing a direct relationship between bean bakers and coffee farmers, hoping to produce the best coffee and tell the stories of the farmers who grew it.

The long distance Coffee Project (The Long Miles Coffee prject) is the fruit of this dream to create a reliable coffee production base in the poorest countries in the world.

They found that in order to do so, they had to build their own washing plants, so in the Bukeye and Kayanza communities, they set up washing plants with limited resources to buy coffee cherries from nearby mountain communities for processing.

After working in Burundi for several years, the Carsons were subjected to a coup and frequent violence last year, forcing their daily life to come to a standstill and having to leave. But after the war ceased a little last year, they returned to Burundi and continued to make coffee.

They are very confident about their raw coffee. After seven manual selections of raw beans, starting from the farmhouse, and finally, there are no defects left before they are shelled and packaged. Stumptown and olympia cafes in the United States, Norwegian raw bean merchants, and more and more boutique coffee makers are using their coffee.

Polondi's "long-distance Coffee Project" Gattukuza Bourbon washing

Burundi "Long Miles Proiect" Gatukuza Bourbon washed

■ country: Burundi in Burundi

■ variety: bourbon Bourbon

■ producing area: Ngozi province

■ producer: farmers around Gattuku Zanshui Farm

■ altitude: 1700 m

■ treatment: washing Washed

■ flavor: red currant, honey, vanilla