Long Miles - Burundi
Long Miles - Burundi
A light roast, washed coffee from Bukeye, Burundi. Pear, floral, and simple syrup sweetness with a clean, smooth body. A staple-worthy cup from Long Miles Coffee Project.
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The Divine Details
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A New Generation, Against a Storied Past.
Coffee has a storied past in Burundi, one of the world's poorest countries. It was introduced in the 1920s under Belgian colonial rule, when farmers were given coffee seedlings and forced to cultivate them with little resources, support, or compensation.
Burundi is still working to emerge from a 12-year, ethnic-based civil war that began in 1993, part of a longer history of conflict and violent tension between the Hutu majority and Tutsi minority since independence from Belgium in 1962. Against that backdrop, a new generation of coffee farmers is emerging.
This coffee, like every one we've had from Long Miles, is simply delicious. Clean, smooth, and flavorful, it carries itself as a staple in anyone's coffee rotation, grown from the Bukeye Washing Station in Kayanza Province, the birthplace of Long Miles and their Coffee Scouts program.