Roaster's Choice - Adventurous Coffee - 12 Month Subsription

Burundi Ninga Washed

$ 22.00

Size

12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

Qty

We’ve been working with the Long Miles Coffee Project in the Muramvya province of Burundi since before we even opened our Pecos St cafe, and we couldn’t be happier to roast coffee from the Ninga hillside for seven years running .

Long Miles Coffee Project was founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson, Americans living in Burundi who saw an opportunity to help farmers in the Muramvya Province attain better prices and better access the specialty coffee market. The Carlsons built two washing stations, and have worked with farmers ensure delicious coffee. And, by working with committed buyers like Huckleberry and other roasters in advance of the harvest, Long Miles is able to pay the farmers a higher price for their coffee than they would receive on the open market.

Ninga is a specific hillside community (colline is French for hill), and this coffee comes exclusively from the Long Miles farmers living on that hill. We've been roasting Ninga microlots for 7 years now, and this year's washed lot took a lot longer than we’d like to get here (thanks, global shipping issues!), but is tasting great nonetheless. Long Miles kills it on coffee processing, so the coffee is still shining bright.

Ninga is bright and sweet. We're tasting clementine and lemondrop candy acidity, rounded out with white grape, stone fruit, and sugar cookie sweetness. Complex, clean, juicy, sweet - there's a reason we look forward to this coffee year after year.

*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

📸 courtesy Long Miles Coffee Project

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Colombia El Desarollo

$ 21.00

Size

12 oz

2 lb

5 lb

Qty

El Desarollo is back - one of our favorite coffees for the last 6 years. While we called this coffee Matambo for a few years, it's always come from the El Desarollo Growers Association, and this group of farmers has produced a coffee that's deeply sweet and subtly complex, year-after-year!

The best Colombias - and particularly the best Huilas - pull off a balance between approachability and exciting flavors that few other origins can match. This latest crop is a perfect example of that balance, popping with red berry and green apple fruitiness, but rounding out the pop with dark honey and buttery pie crust sweetness.

This past December our head roaster, Shelby, visited El Desarollo with Caravela, one of our favorite sourcing partners in Latin America. This was Huck's second visit to Gigante de Huila, and we're continually impressed with the coffees, and the people behind the coffees. Plus, this year we're also gonna have something special from one of the growers within the El Desarollo association, Dario Rodriguez. So keep your eyes peeled for a limited release in the lineup this summer!

Dario's coffee's gonna be dope, but so is El Desarollo in its own right. We think it has something for everyone. Plenty of traditional coffee flavors and sweetness for those who prefer a more approachable or milk-friendly mug, but also packing juicy, fruity flavors and high-end brightness to please folks who prefer more adventurous coffees. Year 6 of this gem from Gigante, and we’re looking forward to brewing it for the next few months!

*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

Pictured: The Cuadrado family, Jair Polania, Dario Rodriguez, Uilmar Andres Garcia

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Kenya Mungaria Peaberry

$ 21.00

Size

12 OZ

2 LB

5 LB

Qty

Kenya is back in the Huck lineup, and we're kicking things off with this juicy and complex peaberry separation from the Mungaria Factory and Aguthi Cooperative in Nyeri!

Aguthi Farmers Cooperative Society is a union of cooperatives in Kenya's famed Nyeri county, and Mungaria is one of the factories that make up the larger group. In Kenya coffee-speak, a factory is a local cooperative based around a single washing station, and these factories typically organize themselves into larger farmers cooperative societies (FCS) for export efficiencies, farmer trainings, financing, etc. All in all, 219 farmers deliver their coffee to Mungaria, where it is washed in the traditional Kenyan style, and dried slowly on raised beds.

Even though this is Huck’s first year roasting coffee from Aguthi Society and Mungaria factory, both are part of the larger Kenyan Cooperative Coffee Exporters (KCCE) network. The Kenyan coffee industry tends to be dominated by a few foreign-owned businesses, and KCCE is a collective of cooperative societies that market and export their coffee together, to keep a bit more of the benefits within Kenya. We enjoy working with KCCE, and the coffee is dependably delicious. We’ve typically focused on Othaya FCS in the past, and we’ll have a banger coffee from Othaya later in the year, too, but this year when KCCE sent samples, Mungaria Peaberry was simply impossible to ignore.

One of things that’s special about Kenyan coffee is size separation. Coffee mills separate their coffee by size, dividing coffees into the largest AA selections, then AB, PB (peaberry), and a few grades that we typically don’t see in specialty coffee. Some folks claim that AA is better, or that peaberries - the coffee cherries that happen to produce just one seed rather than two - are always the top. We’re not big believers that one screen size is automatically better (ABs often outperform the sexy grades), but the different grades do have different flavors, and they roast a bit differently. This year the peaberries from Mungaria topped the AA and AB.

This coffee is hella juicy, hella sweet, and deliciously complex, like all our favorite Kenyas. We're tasting tangy raspberry, subtly-spiced molasses, and currant jam, with a bit of citrus to add to the party. This is a small lot that we won’t have for too long, but while we do, we’re gonna be brewing this as often as we can!

*** For roasting schedule, shipping, receiving & additional information, please visit out Frequently Asked Questions . And, for a primer on coffee processing, check out our Processing Basics Guide. ***

📸: Mungaria Factory, courtesy Samuel Njeru, Kenya Cooperative Coffee Exporters

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Roaster's Choice - Adventurous Coffee - 12 Month Subsription

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