Karambi honey

Vibrant and juicy with notes of raspberry, date, citrus & spice.

Producer: smallholder farmers

Location: Karambi town, Nyamasheke District, 1,700-2,00masl

Variety: Bourbon

Process: Honey

Not far from the shores of Lake Kivu lies Karambi, a washing station named after Karambi town where it resides. The altitude at Karambi station is 1700 meters above sea level and the coffee is grown upwards of 2000 meters in the surrounding mountainside. The station was erected to buy coffee from smallholder farmers in the region, many of whom also work at the site processing and preparing the coffee for export. Quality grading starts immediately upon delivery, the underripe coffee separated out by floating in tanks of water. They produce wet-process ("fully washed"), honey process and dry process ("naturals") coffee at Karambi and all three undergo intensive sorting technics in order to make sure the A1 grade coffee is made up of the densest seeds.