Boutique coffee roasting Red bourbon of Musasha Cooperative, Rwanda

[product name]: red bourbon of Musasha Cooperative, Rwanda

[producing area]: Rushashi

[variety]: red bourbon

[treatment]: traditional washing

[producer]: Musasha Cooperative

Many friends know that Rushashi is located in the northern part of Rwanda, and the Musasha Cooperative, which is famous for its success in cup testing competitions in previous years, is one of the best-known cooperatives in this region. The Musasha Cooperative was established in 2002 and has continued to produce high-quality washed Rwandan coffee beans since the authorities funded the establishment of the first washing treatment station in 2003.

The international authoritative coffee rating website Coffee Review gives a high score of 92.

Coffee in Rwanda, like many African countries, is mainly produced by small farmers. Musasha Cooperative is the first one or two large peasant associations in the country. At the beginning, it had 800 members, about half of whom were women. Today, the cooperative has more than 2,000 small farmer members and has three washing treatment plants. Every year, during the harvest period, coffee is collected and the ripe coffee cherries are sent to the processing station for processing. During the annual harvest period, the ripe coffee berries picked by farmers are concentrated in the treatment station for treatment, first selected by hand to ensure that no immature or damaged fruit is mixed in. Then remove the pericarp, wash the pectin in the channel after 12-18 hours of washing and fermentation in a cool and low temperature environment. During the drying process of the scaffolding, the members of the treatment station will turn manually and take care of them carefully to ensure that the raw beans with shells will not lose moisture or dry unevenly in sufficient sunlight, until the moisture content stability of raw beans is reduced to less than 14%.

Musasha Cooperative donates a certain proportion of its net profit to the local government every year to build more advanced washing treatment plants and improve output and quality. In recent years, the production quality has been further improved through coffee assistance programs in Europe and the United States, and high-quality coffee beans have been sold directly to the international boutique coffee market, thus significantly improving the income of coffee farmers. The coffee industry is the lifeblood of Rwanda's economy, accounting for about 80% of the country's export earnings. For rural areas like Musasha, coffee, as the main income of families, is an important pillar of education, health care and the maintenance of homes and farms. Their lives have been greatly improved.

[flavor evaluation]: nut cream, sugar sweet, citrus, first love-like sweet and sour feeling is very good, boby thick, tail plum flavor.

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