Price range: £10.00 through £35.00
Rwanda
Smallholder Farmers
Red Bourbon
1,545 MASL
Washed
Kanyamibwa Edmond, the previous owner of Kanya Washing station, built it as a mini washing station in 2014. He was a resident of the area and had always been interested in coffee. Kanya used the station to learn and perfect the methods of processing cherries.
Over the following years, Kanya’s business flourished as he processed high quality and significantly increased the capacity of the station. Kanyamibwa used the profits from Kanya to build a second washing station, and in 2017 he decided to sell Kanya so that he could continue to properly manage the operations of his second washing station.
At the Kanya washing station strict processing are followed. The coffee is first passed through floatation tanks to remove any foreign matter, under ripe cherries and floaters.
After that the coffee is machined pulped with the help of a Penagos de-pulper. After this the coffee is dry fermented in a specific storage space for around 24 to 36 hours and the mucilage removed before being placed to dry on raised beds for a period from 15 to 22 days.
