Stumptown Coffee Roasters has worked for several years with Burundi coffee growers to bring their coffee to us, and we’re excited and grateful to share in the fruits of their labor! Here’s how Stumptown describes the Burundi Bwayi Direct Trade: “Violet and raisin aromatics open the flavor gates to perfectly clean notes of plum, black cherry and orange zest that are complimented by a syrupy body.”

Stumptown writes that “Bwayi is one of the pearls in our East African Direct Trade program. We’ve been working closely with this group of farmers over the past three years. In addition to improved cherry selection and a return to double fermentation, a la the Kenyan style, we’ve now installed a pre-drying stage to the Bwayi process. This addition has given the coffee’s mouth feel pronounced depth. Our quality control team cupped through each day of the harvest to construct this lot of coffee.”

If you ever wondered what goes into bringing you exceptional coffees through Direct Trade relationships between Stumptown and coffee growers around the world, check out Aleco Chigounis’s source trip notes. To read specifically about coffees from Burundi, scroll down to Burundi March 15, 2008, when Aleco was establishing Direct Trade relationships and sharing observations about life in Burundi.