Burundi Long Miles Peaberry
Cupping Notes:
| FLAVOR | Chocolate and lemon with pronounced sweetness, layered with black tea and delicate herbal notes. |
| BODY | Full Bodied |
| ACIDITY | Medium; clean and balanced |
Farm Notes:
| GEOGRAPHY | Kayanza and Gitega, Burundi |
| ALTITUDE | 1,700 to 2,100 meters above sea level |
| PRODUCER | Long Miles |
| PROCESSING | Honey Processed |
Burundi “Long Miles” Hills Peaberry coffees come from the Long Miles Coffee Project, founded by Ben and Kristy Carlson in Burundi’s high-altitude-growing regions. Founders, Ben and Kristy Carlson, moved to Burundi in 2011 and saw that both injustice and poor farming practices permeated the country’s newly privatized coffee industry. They also saw that roasters around the world had a difficult time getting consistently great coffees from Burundi. In an effort to see positive change in both farmers’ and roasters’ lives, Long Miles Coffee was born.
Long Miles coffee production is a combined effort that takes into account the needs of coffee farmers and the needs of the roasters they work with worldwide. When you trust us with a coffee order not only do you get a thoughtfully produced coffee, but you directly impact coffee farming communities.
Coffee holds so much potential. It has the ability to change a landscape and transform a people, but it is so easy to feel distant from the origin of your coffees and the impact your purchase makes on coffee-growing communities. Long Miles Coffee production understands the need for both transparency and great coffee, which is why Long Miles Coffee operates as a farmer-driven coffee production model started in 2013. In their first coffee season Long Miles worked with just fifty coffee farmers. Today, Long Miles Coffee works directly with over 14,000 coffee farming families on traceable and unique hills within Burundi and other regions in Africa. Long Miles creates traceable micro-lots that yield consistently great coffees while improving the livelihoods of the small-holding farmers who grow them.
Please head on over to the African Coffee tab to see more information on Long Miles Coffee Producers and some additional information on this unique and flavorful coffee.
