Burundi Dry Process Colline Kigina

This coffee is from small farms situated around Colline Kigina, or Kigina "hill". The farmers from Kigina delivery their coffee to a mill on the neightboring hill, called Kinama. In fact, we have a dry process lot from Kinama hill as well right now that you can check out here. Both coffees are from the same group, headed by a man named Dan Brose, and his partner Poncien. The station is only producing dry process coffee at the moment, from their own sector, as well as from a few of the surrounding peaks, like Kigina. They are currently building out a wet mill too so that they can begin wet processing too, hopefully starting next year. They planned to start last year, but there was a huge fuel shortage to run their diesel generator, and there is no grid power in this part of Nyabiraba. Kigina farms start around 1700 meters above sea level, and stretch up toward the 2000 mark. We were impressed by the fruit-forward, rustic cups this dry process coffee produced, and found it to be very flexible in the roaster. Dry process coffees produce more chaff than washed, which is something to keep an eye on. Don't let it build up between roast batches, especially in roasters with open heating coils, like the Behmor.

Check out our podcast episode with Dan Brose, where we learn more about his background, and their sister site, Migoti.