Rwanda: Muzo

About This Coffee

This coffee is a Red Bourbon variety from the Mushonyi Washing Station in Rwanda's Western Province, grown near Lake Kivu at altitudes between 1600-1950 meters above sea level. It is produced by approximately 1,200 smallholder farmers who tend modest plots of around 300 coffee trees. The coffee undergoes natural processing, with cherries meticulously sorted through flotation and visual inspection before being sun-dried on raised beds. The cup offers a soft and complex texture with notes of dried fruit, gooseberries, lemon, and grapefruit, delivering a sweet, floral, and fruit-forward profile. This coffee scored 87 on the cupping scale with a layered, elegant mouthfeel.

Origin

Northern Province (Rwanda)

Western Province (Rwanda)

Flavor Notes

Dried Fruit, Grapefruit, Lemon, Gooseberry

Roast Level

Medium

Processing

Natural, Fully Washed

Typology

Arabica

Red Bourbon

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Muttley & Jack's Coffee Roasters

Jack Ryan, an Irishman who spent fifteen years working humanitarian and environmental campaigns with Greenpeace and the United Nations Refugee Agency, launched Muttley & Jack's in 2017 from the island of Rindö in the Stockholm Archipelago. The name honors Jack and his Boston Terrier, Muttley. After training at the Dublin School of Coffee and the Probat factory, and placing second in the Swedish Coffee Roasting Championship that same year, he channeled a former career as a chef into a roasting philosophy grounded in trusting your own palate. The operation centers on microlots and nanolots scoring 87 to 90 on the SCA scale, hand roasted to order and shipped within 24 hours. Sourcing partnerships prioritize direct relationships, and farmers receive between 200 and 400 percent above the commodity market price. The entire model runs on subscriptions, a format Jack built from scratch starting with just fifteen members on his very first roast.

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