Sovu ( Espresso Roasted )

COUNTRY: Rwanda

PROVINCE: Southern Province

DISTRICT: Huye District

SECTOR: Huye Sector

WASHING STATION: Sovu Washing Station

ELEVATION: 1,760m above sea level

VARIETY: Red Bourbon

PROCESSING: Washed

CONTRIBUTING FARMERS: 103 Cooperative Members

WASHING STATION OWNER: Abahuzamugambi Ba Kawa Maraba Cooperative

This special microlot was produced using coffee cherry from 103 women farmers who own and grow the crop on independent farms in the hills surrounding Sovu washing station, in Rwanda’s Southern Province. The team at Sovu Washing Station take a huge amount of care in sorting and processing their coffee. Maraba operate a QC lab and own their own dry mill, enabling them to control quality all the way through to export.

Cherries are delivered to the washing station on the same day as they are picked and are inspected and sorted to ensure only the very ripest cherries are processed. They are then machine-sorted by density and pulped on the same day using a mechanical pulper that divides the beans by weight. After pulping, the coffee is fermented overnight for around 12–18 hours and checked regularly, to feel the stickiness of the remaining mucilage, as this determines when fermentation should stop. The beans are then washed with fresh water for many times and moved to raised screens for ‘wet-sorting’ by han

As with most washing stations in Rwanda, women do the majority of hand-sorting. This takes place in two stages—on the covered pre-drying tables and on the drying tables. The idea is that unripe green beans are still visible when they are damp, while the roofs over the tables protect the beans from the direct sunlight.

Next, the beans are moved onto the washing station’s greenhouse dryers, or their extensive raised beds for between 14-21 days, where they are sorted again for defects and turned regularly and protected from rain and the midday sun by covers, ensuring both even drying and the removal of any damaged or defective beans. After reaching 11% humidity, the coffee is stored in parchment and then when adequately rested it is carefully processed at the cooperative’s brand-new dry mill in Huye.

Suitable for Espresso Machine, Mokka Pot, Stove Top, French press, and Filter brewing methods

Recommended Espresso Machine,Mokka Pot,French press

**NOTE FOR DELIVERY** An order placing BEFORE 2 PM will arrange on next day delivery. An order AFTER 2 PM will deliver on the next following days.