Batch Drop #3.
This time we’re heading to the rugged northwest of Rwanda, one of the most remarkable coffee-growing landscapes in East Africa.
Ruli CWS was the first washing station built by the Musasa Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, constructed in 2003 with the support of a Rwandan government loan and the USAID-backed PEARL programme — an initiative that helped shift Rwanda’s entire coffee sector away from commodity production and towards specialty.
Most of the cooperative’s 2,000+ smallholder farmers work plots of less than a quarter of a hectare, cultivating just 250–300 trees each alongside food crops. By pooling their harvests and processing centrally, they’ve built something that no individual farm could achieve alone.
Sitting at 1700–2000masl, the Red Bourbon grown here has real altitude behind it. We’ve kept the roast light to let the natural process do the talking, and it’s a big boozy natural! Expect a fruit-forward, boozy cup with grapefruit brightness, deep plum sweetness, and plenty of character throughout.
Cup + Coffee Bundle
In celebration of our Batch #3 Drop we are bundling together our new Rwandan Natural + Our new Kikoy Coffee 7oz Cups. Check out more below.
This time we’re heading to the rugged northwest of Rwanda, one of the most remarkable coffee-growing landscapes in East Africa.
Ruli CWS was the first washing station built by the Musasa Dukunde Kawa Cooperative, constructed in 2003 with the support of a Rwandan government loan and the USAID-backed PEARL programme — an initiative that helped shift Rwanda’s entire coffee sector away from commodity production and towards specialty.
Most of the cooperative’s 2,000+ smallholder farmers work plots of less than a quarter of a hectare, cultivating just 250–300 trees each alongside food crops. By pooling their harvests and processing centrally, they’ve built something that no individual farm could achieve alone.
Sitting at 1700–2000masl, the Red Bourbon grown here has real altitude behind it. We’ve kept the roast light to let the natural process do the talking, and it’s a big boozy natural! Expect a fruit-forward, boozy cup with grapefruit brightness, deep plum sweetness, and plenty of character throughout.
Our 7oz cup is built for the way specialty coffee is meant to be drunk, unhurried and with intention. It’s weighty enough to feel considered and sized right for a filter brew or a flat white.
Batch Drop #2.
This time we're heading to Nandi County, a region of Kenya that's quietly been building a reputation for exceptional coffee and one of our favourite coffee producing countries!
This washed lot comes from Great Rift Coffee, who have been working in Nandi County since 2019 with a clear sense of purpose. Alongside their own farms, they work closely with local smallholders, providing seedlings, training, and financial support, as well as funding school scholarships and clean water projects in the area. Their vertically integrated model means every stage from cherry selection through to export is closely managed, and that attention shows in the cup.
Grown at 1400masl, this is a blend of two Kenyan varietals - Ruiri 11 and Batian. Both bred for quality and resilience in these conditions. The cherries were handpicked, sorted, and floated before pulping and washing. Drying started on skin drying tables before moving to raised beds, where the parchment was turned and covered daily for a slow, even dry over 10–14 days.
We’ve kept the roast light to preserve everything the process and environment worked hard to develop. Expect brown sugar sweetness up front, raisin and berry depth through the middle, and a subtle cola-like finish.
Batch Drop #1.
We're heading to one of East Africa's lesser known coffee regions, the Rwenzori mountains of Uganda.
This naturally processed coffee comes to us through Kwezi Coffee, a company run by sisters Barbara Mugeni and Pamella Kampire. They're second-generation coffee people, raised on their family's farm, where their father made a point of treating women as equal partners in the work, and their mother oversaw everything from planting through to post-harvest. That upbringing is baked into what Kwezi does now: building real opportunities for women across Uganda's coffee industry.
The SL14 variety grows at altitude here, between 1900 and 2200 masl, and the natural process does exactly what you'd hope for. It amplifies the fruit and adds body without losing clarity. We've roasted it light to let the coffee speak for itself: expect a fruit-forward cup with a honey sweetness running through it, finishing with milk chocolate and some nuttiness.
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