Burundi Dry Process Nyabiraba Kinama

The Kinama mill is a coffee processing site in Nyabiraba Commune, not far from the Migoti washing station. In fact, they're run by 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, but they are building out their wet mill so that they can hopefully begin wet processing as well. They planned to start last year, but there was a huge fuel shortage to run their deisel generator, and there is no grid power in this part of Nyabiraba. Kinama serves the local farmers on and around "Colline" Kinama, or Kinama "Hill". It was erected in the last couple of years, partially funded with money from USAID, and a lot of help from locals. The Kinama site sits at 1650 meters above sea level, and farms at the top of the hill stretch up a little higher. 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.