BufCoffee, Taste of Rwanda

We’re so excited to introduce you to Bufcoffee Ltd, a women-led coffee company in Rwanda’s Southern Province. We recently purchased these beans at auction, and were so thrilled with the incredible bean quality and flavor, it was love at first sip!

But it’s not just the beans that are amazing, it’s the company too; and Epiphane, the woman who created Bufcoffee, is truly inspirational. We can’t wait for you to try this incredible, high-end coffee

• Nyamagabe District, Southern Province, Rwanda
• Mixed Local Varieties
• Fully Washed
• 1920-2100 Meters
• Cupping Score 86.5

Roast Profiles

Light Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Cashew
Nutty, Cocoa​
Champagne
Floral
Apricot
Fruity
Fermented
Sweet
Tropical Fruits
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

A light roast brings out the strong notes of tropical fruit, apricot and champagne aroma. Strikingly crisp and complex.

Roaster’s Choice

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Cane Sugar
Nutty, Cocoa
Champagne
Floral
Apricot
Fruity
Fermented
Finish
Tropical Fruits
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Roaster’s Choice reduces the tropical acidity and balances it with additional sugars and nut flavours.

Dark Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Cane Sugar
Nutty, Cocoa​
Champagne
Floral
Apricot
Fruity
Fermented
Aftertaste
Tropical Fruits
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Dark roast brings out the nuts and preserves some of the apricot and tropical fruitiness.

BufCoffee – A woman led endevour.

Bufcoffee is one of those companies that you just can’t help falling in love with. Epiphanie Mukashyaka founded Bufcoffee in 2003 because she was passionate about coffee, and she wanted to help lift others in her community who needed a helping hand. As a widow of seven children, Epiphanie knows a thing or two about perseverance – and about neighbors helping neighbors.

In order to follow her dream of bringing high-quality coffee production to her community, Epiphanie learned everything she could about the coffee trade, went through tons of training on all levels of fully washed coffee production and quality control, and quickly achieved something amazing: she became one of the region’s only female coffee producers!

But Epiphanie didn’t stop there, she shared her company’s success with her community by providing water sanitary systems, health insurance for the farmers, and generally improving living standards. They’ve even built a local school!

Bufcoffee Tasting Notes

From the moment you open a bag of Bufcoffee coffee beans and smell the wonderful aromas, you know you’re getting a world-class coffee. The beans are also Rainforest Alliance certified, by the way.

Bufcoffee beans are grown in the Nyamagabe District, part of the Southern Province of Rwanda. The coffee bean trees are located in areas with an elevation of between 1,920 – 2,100 meters, and it’s this high elevation that gives the beans their crisp, complex flavor. Trust us when we say, there’s something special about these beans.

You see, growing coffee plants at higher elevations stresses the bushes, which results in a smaller yield of beans. The benefit to growing coffee fruit in conditions like this is that the beans that are produced have a more concentrated flavor, and a harder exterior – both desirable qualities in high-end coffee beans.

To understand this process better, think of the way stress impacts grape vines. The older the plant, the more the roots must fight for water, and the more stressed they become. Stressed vines produce fewer grapes, but the grapes that are produced are prized for their unique flavor.

If you’re like us, and you love a good pour-over coffee, you’re going to want to try this coffee ASAP. There’s just so much happening in the cup: yellow plum, apricot, champagne, cashew, pineapple and cane sugar flavors. And, on top of that, the acidity is well-structured and kind of tropical.

Sipping this ultra high-end coffee is truly delightful because the flavors just keep unfolding. It really is one of the most interesting beans we carry.

The Bufcoffee Cupping Score

Cupping is a system used to taste, evaluate and grade coffee, similar to, but not completely the same as a wine rating system. Aroma, flavor, body, acidity, and balance are all graded to give a coffee its cupping score.

Scores of 80 points are incredibly difficult to achieve. Coffees rated over 80 are considered specialty coffees, i.e.: the best of the best, and any coffee that approaches or surpasses 90 points is considered out-of-this-world good.

The Bufcoffee cupping score is an incredible 86.5. In other words, this is a coffee you’re going to want to tell all of your coffee-loving friends about.

Resting Your Coffee

Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.

Generally your coffee will be at it’s peak after:

Light: 7-9 days after roast date
Roaster’s Choice: 5-7 days after roast date
Dark: 3-5 days after roast date

But every bean and person is different so please experiment and find what works for you!

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.