
Burundi
Umutumba
Delicate black tea and dried fruit
A soft and clean example of Burundian coffee, with delicate black tea and dried apricot notes.
This lot comes from the Bukeye, Heza and Ninga stations.
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Long Miles - Coffee expression
A sweet & balanced coffee
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$22.00
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$22.00
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The Long Miles Coffee Project
The Long Miles Project, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, began work in 2013, aiming to raise the bar of specialty coffees coming out of Burundi. The project works with more than 5,000 individual coffee farmers living near three central washing stations, Bukeye, opened in 2013, Heza, from 2014 and Ninga, which had its first harvest in 2020. There are several reasons why producing speciality coffee in Burundi is an incredibly difficult task. There’s the incredibly unstable political situation, where government can change rules on coffee prices and value chain seemingly overnight, the practical challenge of being a small landlocked country attempting to export coffee by sea freight, the constant threat of unrest. But through it all the Carlson family have managed to establish themselves as producers and exporters of consistently delicious coffees, all the while providing some semblance of stability to the lives of smallholder farmers that surround their washing stations in the northern Kayanza Province, near the border with Rwanda.


This year has seen a big jump in production in Burundi. Excellent conditions earlier in 2022 led to both higher yields and excellent quality. The recovery of global supply chains has led to a much more straightforward harvest season, a welcome relief after 3 years of struggling to make ends meet. The 2022 harvest is almost at the level of the 2018 harvest, larger in volume than the 2019, 2020 and 2021 harvests put together.
This washed lot is composed of coffee from across the entire Long Miles Project. Once coffees are processed, they are taken to the dry mill to be cleaned, sorted and prepared for export. Meticulous cupping and physical quality control of every lot throughout the process leads to several levels of quality. Each ‘micro’ lot from a single hill is kept separate, but those that don’t meet quality standards have to be re-sorted in order to meet minimum standards. In order to meet minimum lot sizes, sometimes these lots have to be mixed together, losing traceability in the process. This lot is one example, a washed lot combined from the output of all the Long Miles stations.
This lot is still produced using the same exacting fermentation, washing, drying and sorting protocols, but doesn’t offer the same taste of a specific hill or snapshot in time. As such, Umutumba is a great example of the archetypal washed Burundi profile, with delicate black tea balanced by dried fruit sweetness in the cup, reminiscent of raisin and apricot.

Technical Data
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Producer
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Region
Kayanza -
Altitude
1800 masl -
Varietal
Bourbon -
Process
Washed -
Harvest
May 2022
Washed Process
The washed process involves completely removing both the cherry and the mucilage from the outside of the parchment with the use of friction, fermentation and water. After being harvested, the coffee cherry is then sliced open by either a metal or a sharp plastic blade.
The two seeds (also known as beans) are pushed out of the cherry, which leaves the seed with mucilage as their outermost layer. It is essential in the washed process that all mucilage is removed from the seed which leaves only the flavour that developed in the cell structure of the seed prior to processing.
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