Mbilima - PB Organic ( Filter Roasted )

COUNTRY: Rwanda

PROVINCE: Northern Province

DISTRICT: Gakenke District

SECTOR: Coko Sector

WASHING STATION: Mbilima

ELEVATION: 2,070m above sea level

VARIETY: Red Bourbon

PROCESSING: Washed

FARMERS: 65 cooperative members

WASHING STATION OWNER: Dukunde Kawa Cooperative

This peaberry microlot was produced from coffee cherry from some 65 smallholder farmers who deliver to Mbilima washing station. On delivery, the cherries are inspected and sorted by hand to ensure only the very ripest cherries are processed. Farmers do the selecting, and receive the highest income from the ripest, healthier fruit. The remainder of their crop still gets purchased by the co-op, at a lower price, to be processed and sold for the internal market.

Cherry is then sorted by weight (and any floaters are removed) by a Pinhalense machine. Coffee is then pulped on the same day – usually in the evening. After pulping, the coffee is pre-washed and fermented overnight for around 12–18 hours and then graded again using floatation channels that sort the coffee by weight. The wet parchment is the washed a second time and left to ferment for a further six hours — with the goal of removing as much mucilage as possible without using machinery that may accidentally crush or damage the beans.

As with most washing stations in Rwanda, women do the majority of hand-sorting. This takes place in two stages – on the covered pre-drying tables and on the drying tables. Next, the beans are moved onto the washing station’s extensive raised drying tables (‘African beds’) for around two weeks. After reaching 11-12% humidity, the coffee is then transported to Dukunde Kawa’s purpose-built warehouse prior to final dry-milling and hand sorting at the cooperative’s dry mill.

RECOMMENDED Suitable for Filter brewing methods and French press.

 **NOTE FOR DELIVERY** An order placing BEFORE 2 PM will arrange on next day delivery. An order AFTER 2 PM will deliver on the next following days.