🍇 Burundi 🍇 ANOXIC

Grown by: Izuba Washing Station
Process: Anoxic Water Pillow
Location: Runinya, Kayanza Province
Varietal: Red Bourbon
Sourced through: Raw Material

Anoxic coffee has a complex and nuanced flavour profile, with a mix of sweet, fruity, and savoury notes. This particular one has notes of juicy blackberries and moreish blueberry muffin!

The natural anoxic water pillow process uses cool temperatures, utilising cold water poured across plastic sheeting, creating a vacuum seal above the coffee cherries. Cold water reduces the fermentation temperature, and allows the coffee to sit in cherry for an extended period, with no interaction from additional oxygen. This process is a modern technique first introduced at sister farm El Fénix, in Quindio, Colombia. It is extremely low-cost and low-risk for a producer.

Last year, almost none of the households around Izuba washing station had health insurance. This season our suppliers, Raw Material, have focused on ensuring all families delivering cherries to us receive full health insurance. This initiative was revealed as the most effective and desired thing we could do from a long list of possible activities following interviews with the community.