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September Box
Everything you need to know about the coffees in your box.
Coffee No. 1
El Salvador
Los Pirineos Bourbon Elite
washed
Steeped in a rich history of coffee production, Los Pirineos has been in the Baraona family since 1889, making it one of the longest standing coffee producing farms in El Salvador, and the world. Situated atop a dormant volcano, setting the scene for dramatic views of the valleys below, often sitting above cloud cover, giving this farm a magical aura to match its wealth of high quality coffee production. Over more than a century, the Baraona family have built a reputation of excellence, experimenting with different varietals and setting the standard globally for quality coffee from South America. Diego Baraona, somewhat of a renaissance man, being an accomplished athlete, an engineer and a wizard with a guitar, took over the farm in 2020 after the sudden death of his father, Gilberto Baraona. Diego was not planning on becoming a coffee producer, but Gilberto had built a stellar reputation, leaving big shoes to fill, having won 17 Cup of Excellence awards and establishing Los Pirineos as a leader in experimental processing in El Salvador. Diego knew that he had to uphold the family legacy. Since that time, Diego has led the farm further down the road his father had paved, leading innovation in processing and agronomy on the farm. The farm grows over 70 different varietals, with several experimental plots for research, most notably being one of the globes most important nurseries of Pacamara coffee, and owns the largest seed bank in El Salvador. A farm and family steeped in a rich and extensive heritage of coffee agriculture and production, we are proud to have their coffee in our roastery.
Country: El Salvador
Region: Chinameca
Altitude: 1400 masl
Producer: Diego Baraona
Variety: Bourbon Elite
Processing: Anaerobic Natural
Brewing the Subscription Coffees
We are excited to have embarked on a new project to assist you to brew your coffees better at home. We have bought a particle size meter and have calibrated SA’s most popular grinders against each other at a certain micron size in order to supply you with exact grind settings for your grinder at home. No more guessing what coarse or medium means!
Don’t see your grinder? Don’t worry, we’re going to be adding more over time!
Pour over
April Brewer
Kalita 185 Filter Paper
20g coffee (833 μm)
300g water (92C)
3 equal pours every 30 sec
Total brew time: 2min50sec
Coffee No. 2
burundi
Migoti Hill
washed
Migoti coffee, founded in 2015 by Dan Brose and Pontien Ntunzwenimana in an effort to uplift the smallholder farmers in the surrounding Bujumbura Province. The infrastructure in this area had suffered neglect and deteriorated after the country’s 12-year civil war between 1993 and 2005. The two engineers saw an opportunity to work with the community, building processing infrastructure to service the nearly 4000 farmers in the surrounding area, starting with Migoti Coffee Washing Station. Not just processing and selling coffee, they endeavored to uplift the surrounding community by providing education regarding sustainable farming practices and adding to the local farmer’s skillset around agriculture, which has led to their washing stations producing some of the most sought-after coffee from Burundi over the last decade.
A Familiar name in our coffee line-up, the Migoti washing stations is a staple for our subscribers and home-brewers across the world. This year, we had the opportunity to get our hands on some honey processed coffee from this washing station, and it will not disappoint. The coffee is depulped, but not washed and left to dry with its mucilage layer still intact, giving a hybrid style washed-natural taste experience. We taste golden delicious apples and clementine. The stonefruit sweetness and malic acidity we have come to know in coffees from Migoti are so beautifully surfaced in this honey process. Red apple sweetness and acidity wash over your palate which give way to juicy clementine sweetness which lingers through the finish of this coffee, making it a balanced and pleasing drinking experience. Migoti has become synonymous with Bluebird and this coffee is an example of the reason for that. The team at Migoti produces great coffee and we are always stoked to share these coffees with you.
Country: Burundi
Region: Bujumbura
Altitude: 1800 masl
Producer: Migoti Coffee Co.
Variety: Red Bourbon
Processing: Washed
Coffee No. 3
kenya
Kamwangi AB
washed
Kamwangi AB has become an iconic Bluebird coffee. It is one that we look forward to every year, and we look forward to seeing all the development and
The Kamwangi Factory (wash station) is one of three wet mills of the New Ngariama Cooperative Society in Kirinyaga in Central Kenya. They have proven to be very consistent in quality over the last years, and have great systems for traceability and quality control. They are Rainforest Alliance certified, and have established soaking pits for waste water treatment. Kamwangi collects cherries from about 1000 smallholders with an average of 0,4 hectares of coffees, about 250 trees each. Fermentation is done with fresh river water which is then recycled during the day through a recycling process enabling them to significantly reduce water consumption.
The farmers under the New Ngariama Cooperative in Kirinyaga are located on the slopes of Mount Kenya. These coffees are world renowned for their intense, complex, and flavour-dense cup profiles.
Country: Kenya
Region: Kirinyaga
Altitude:1800 masl
Producer: Kamwangi Factory
Variety: SL24, SL38, Batian, Ruiru 11
Processing: Washed
AUGUST's BLUE Bag
kenya
Kamwangi AB
washed
Flavour notes: Blueberry and red plum.
Country: Kenya
Region: Kirinyaga
Altitude: 1800 masl
Producer: Kamwangi Factory
Variety: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11
Processing: Washed
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