Rwanda Muhazi

A bean for light and dark roast lovers alike, ranking up there with Kenya and Ethiopian Yirgacheffes. Expect a taste more sweet and fuller than their African siblings however.

• Bourbon
• Fully Washed
• 1400-1600 Meters

Roast Profile

Light Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Nuts, Chocolate and Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Floral / Black Tea
Floral
Sweet Dates
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Roaster’s Choice

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Milk Chocolate
Nutty, Cocoa
Floral
Floral
Sweet Dates
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Dark Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Chocolate
Nutty, Cocoa
Floral
Floral
Fruity
Fruity
Fermented
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Explosive Coffee

Grown high above the potentially explosive Lake Kivu, is grown some truly fantastic gourmet coffee that delights at all roast levels. The beans are hand-picked and fully-washed (i.e. all pulp is fully removed before dying) ensures that the original taste of the beans are come out as cleanly as possible. At lighter roasts you get some very sweet dates and black tea, while darker roasts will savour signature peppery spice and cocoa.

Want a bit of terrifying trivia to go with your coffeee? The rich, smooth taste of this coffee partially comes from highly nutritious volcanic soils. And where you find volcanic soils, you find volcanoes. This wonderful soil happens to come from Mt Nyiragono, an active volcano on the border of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda.

Mt Nyiragono has steadily pumped 60 cubic kilometers of methane and 300 cubic kilometers of carbon dioxide in caverns under the lake. Then for good measure, laced these gasses with toxic hydrogen sulfide. During the last eruption, a small pocket of gas escaped the chamber and caused the lake to “boil” as it escaped. Should one day the gas chamber explode, say during another eruption or earthquake, 2.6  gigatonnes of carbon dioxide will be released into the atmosphere (about 5% of total global emissions, which is bad) and the toxic gas could kill millions of people in the surrounding region (very, very bad).

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.