Burundian Coffee Flavor with Prunus Fruit Flavor introduction to boutique coffee beans in manor production area

Formerly known as Urundi, Burundi formed a feudal kingdom in the 16th century. Since the middle of the 19th century, the forces of Britain, Germany and Belgium invaded. The long-ruled monarchy, which was conquered by Germany in 1890, listed it as the territory of German East Africa and fell under the control of the Belgian army in 1916. After World War I, the League of Nations assigned the then merged Ruanda-Urundi to Belgium, which supported the local royal family to rule the region indirectly. Until the end of the second World War, Rwanda-Oolong became part of the United Nations trust territory, entrusted to Belgium, separated from Rwanda in 1959 and formally became independent as the Kingdom of Burundi on 1 July 1962. Burundi had briefly regained its monarchy when it became independent, but in 1966 the military prime minister ousted the original prince (he had just usurped the throne), established the Republic of Burundi and entered a period of military dictatorship. [3]

There are two major ethnic groups in Burundi, and only about 15 percent of the Tutsi have ruled the country since the 16th century, controlling the civilian population, which is mainly made up of Hutu, plus a very small number of indigenous Twa. This abnormal social structure occupied by ethnic minorities planted the evil seed of national instability and reached its peak in October 1993. Just four months after taking office, Melchior Ndadaye, Burundi's first ever Hutu head of state and the first democratically elected president, was assassinated by a mainly Tutsi-controlled military. The death of Ndadaya led to a comprehensive ethnic conflict in which at least 200000 of the population of both sides were slaughtered, of which 65000 Tutsi were slaughtered to fewer than 5000. The massacre lasted until 2002, when the Tutsi government finally signed an international armistice with four different Hutu rebels and a cease-fire agreement with the last rebel group, the Forces nationales de Liberation (French: Conseil National Pour la D é fense de la D é mocratie-Forces pour la D é fense de la D é mocratie, NCDD-FDD). On September 7, 2006, Burundi was signed in Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania, which is a very interesting country for us. Little is known about coffee, and coffee producers and processors cannot price their coffee, just as people cannot identify uncarved jade, so people here do not have the income to do the same planting and processing methods that are being used in other countries. Like Panama. " So says Tim Maestas (USA) of Augies Coffee.

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The heavily colored soil of Burundi.

Picture from: LMCP

Deal with

Burundian coffee was first brought in by the Germans in the 1900s; they found that bourbon was the most suitable for growing in the local climate, which is usually a "tropical" plateau climate with a very large temperature difference between day and night. However, due to the suspension of investment in coffee research, bourbon has become the only coffee variety left in the country and has been treated with "full washing".

The development of boutique coffee needs continuous breakthrough and innovation. In 2014, Long Miles Coffee Project (LMCP) began to use sun treatment and honey treatment for their coffee, which made professional coffee cup testers overjoyed at the taste of the coffee. According to Miss Gu Qinru, head of Latorre & Dutch Coffee Asia, "usually we can drink citrus and plum flavors in washed Burundian coffee. And this is our first cup of Burundian coffee treated with sun and honey. Its flavor turns into more complex strawberries, grapes and tropical fruits. It seems that the way it is handled is crucial to the taste of the coffee. "

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The selection and treatment of ↑ coffee fruits have a great influence on the quality of raw beans. The picture shows Long Miles's Bukeye processing plant.

Picture from: LMCP

Traceability

Traceability is a common problem faced by coffee growers, raw bean buyers and coffee roasters. There are currently about 3500 families working for LMCP. Production harvesting areas are distributed on eight different hilltops and two processing plants-Bukeye (operational in 2013) and Heza (operational in 2014). There are many variables that affect the quality of the final beans. For example, each mountain has a different microclimate, which in turn affects the growth, picking and handling of coffee fruits, and varies from day to day. Nathan James Johnston, the boss of Cartel Coffee Roasters in Australia, said: "working with Long Miles, we can know exactly where, when and who picked the coffee, which means a lot to us.