Bumba Hill Lot 5 (Burundi, Honey)
THE DETAILSCountry: Burundi, Kanyanza
Producer: Long Miles Coffee
Produced: Ninga Washing Station
Varietal: Bourbon
Process: Honey
Notes: Fig jam, rooibos, cloves
Mood: Nostalgic, mellow, smooth
Genre: Adventure fiction
FULFILMENT POLICYWe roast on weekends. Orders placed Saturday - Friday will be shipped the following Monday.
LONG MILES COFFEE & BUMBA HILL LOT 5We are excited to be offering this lot from Long Miles Coffee, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson who moved to Burundi in 2011 from the USA. Long Miles seeks to address both the injustices and poor farming practices that permeated Burundi’s newly privatized coffee industry, and roasters’ inability to purchase consistently great coffees from the country. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers’ and roasters’ lives, Long Miles was born.
Bumba Hill is a region that is exceptionally difficult to access, requiring that one cross three rivers and two provincial borders to reach it. More poignantly, farmers working there have scarce access to water and electricity, often having to travel upwards of three hours by foot or bicycle to deliver their harvested cherries to the nearest washing station.
We are delighted to be offering a Long Miles micro-lot in Bumba Hill Lot 5; this honey-processed Bourbon is a great example of what we can expect of both the processing method and coffees from Burundi.
In the cup we taste a well structured fruitiness of fig jam, tea-like notes of rooibos, and an earthiness reminiscent of clove spices. These flavor notes remind me of some of the flavors of South Africa, and so we couldn’t be more proud to be offering this.
THE DETAILSCountry: Burundi, Kanyanza
Producer: Long Miles Coffee
Produced: Ninga Washing Station
Varietal: Bourbon
Process: Honey
Notes: Fig jam, rooibos, cloves
Mood: Nostalgic, mellow, smooth
Genre: Adventure fiction
FULFILMENT POLICYWe roast on weekends. Orders placed Saturday - Friday will be shipped the following Monday.
LONG MILES COFFEE & BUMBA HILL LOT 5We are excited to be offering this lot from Long Miles Coffee, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson who moved to Burundi in 2011 from the USA. Long Miles seeks to address both the injustices and poor farming practices that permeated Burundi’s newly privatized coffee industry, and roasters’ inability to purchase consistently great coffees from the country. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers’ and roasters’ lives, Long Miles was born.
Bumba Hill is a region that is exceptionally difficult to access, requiring that one cross three rivers and two provincial borders to reach it. More poignantly, farmers working there have scarce access to water and electricity, often having to travel upwards of three hours by foot or bicycle to deliver their harvested cherries to the nearest washing station.
We are delighted to be offering a Long Miles micro-lot in Bumba Hill Lot 5; this honey-processed Bourbon is a great example of what we can expect of both the processing method and coffees from Burundi.
In the cup we taste a well structured fruitiness of fig jam, tea-like notes of rooibos, and an earthiness reminiscent of clove spices. These flavor notes remind me of some of the flavors of South Africa, and so we couldn’t be more proud to be offering this.
THE DETAILSCountry: Burundi, Kanyanza
Producer: Long Miles Coffee
Produced: Ninga Washing Station
Varietal: Bourbon
Process: Honey
Notes: Fig jam, rooibos, cloves
Mood: Nostalgic, mellow, smooth
Genre: Adventure fiction
FULFILMENT POLICYWe roast on weekends. Orders placed Saturday - Friday will be shipped the following Monday.
LONG MILES COFFEE & BUMBA HILL LOT 5We are excited to be offering this lot from Long Miles Coffee, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson who moved to Burundi in 2011 from the USA. Long Miles seeks to address both the injustices and poor farming practices that permeated Burundi’s newly privatized coffee industry, and roasters’ inability to purchase consistently great coffees from the country. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers’ and roasters’ lives, Long Miles was born.
Bumba Hill is a region that is exceptionally difficult to access, requiring that one cross three rivers and two provincial borders to reach it. More poignantly, farmers working there have scarce access to water and electricity, often having to travel upwards of three hours by foot or bicycle to deliver their harvested cherries to the nearest washing station.
We are delighted to be offering a Long Miles micro-lot in Bumba Hill Lot 5; this honey-processed Bourbon is a great example of what we can expect of both the processing method and coffees from Burundi.
In the cup we taste a well structured fruitiness of fig jam, tea-like notes of rooibos, and an earthiness reminiscent of clove spices. These flavor notes remind me of some of the flavors of South Africa, and so we couldn’t be more proud to be offering this.
Got time for a story?
Along with tasting notes, our coffees come with memory notes—a mouthful of words to contextualize what you’re drinking.
Falling Back to Earth
The worst part about tumbling out of a tree isn’t the breath getting sucked from your lungs, it’s having my feet back on the ground.
Newlands Forest is my haven. I know every twisting path that leads further up and into the mountain’s secrets. My dad showed them all to me, we’d go for walks and share a flask of rooibos at the end. But he’s gone and my arm’s in a sling and my mom thinks it’s a treat that I get to stay home from school today. Joke’s on her, I’m missing a geometry test.
It’s a weird thing to be at home when you’re supposed to be at school. I can hear my mom doing all these things that she normally does alone, I guess. She’s got cloves simmering on the stove and is chatting to our gardener and phoning her friends and organizing the linen cupboard again.
In between all that, she’s brought me toast with fig jam. And then comes the real kicker: ‘Do you want to have this all in the lounge and put a movie on? Maybe Mrs Doubtfire?’
I’m supposed to roll my eyes and tell her I’d rather be in the forest, even with one arm. But instead, I nod, and shuffle meekly after her, duvet trailing. I know the forest will welcome me back soon. But for now, I’m home. And that’s not the worst place to be.
