Rwanda - REMERA UNDER SHADE | Bourbon Washed

Rwanda - REMERA UNDER SHADE | Bourbon Washed

Taste Notes
Sweet, Brown Sugar, Tea-like, Cherry

About This Coffee
Remera washing station is located in the South Province of Rwanda, in the Nyamagabe district, approximately at 1,935 m above sea level. The coffee farmers that supplying coffee to Remera washing station grow coffee at altitude of 1,800 - 2,200m above sea level. This elevation makes the coffee beans to ripen slowly resulting in a coffee with good body.

At Remera there are very competent staff, who are well trained in managing the production of micro lots. There are very strict routines for cherry reception and sorting, cherry delivered by farmers must be sorted by the farmers themselves, if this is not done sufficiently there are staff who will do further sorting. The cherries are placed in a tank prior to pulping where floaters are removed, all of the cherry sorted out that is unripens or over rape's will be processed separately as lower grade coffee.

After cherries have been pulped by removing the skin, pulp and grading the coffees into three grades A, B and C. The coffee is fermented between 12-16 hours, depending on the temperature of the climate at the time. The parchment is then washed and graded again in channels, here there are two grades based on density of the bean, then soaked under clean water in tanks for 12 hours.

The parchment is initially taken to pre-drying tables, which are under shade, and where while the parchment is still wet, a lot of hand sorting is done as it is much easier to see defects at this point. At Remera we has invested in drying techniques by building a massive steel structure with different levels for shade drying parchment under shade.

The parchment is then taken to that larger shade drying facility where it is continually sorted and turned during the four weeks it takes to dry under shade.

Information
Country : Rwanda
Region : Nyamagabe
Washing Station: Remera
Growing Altitude : 1,800~2,200m
Varietal : Bourbon
Process : Washed