Rhino on a Roller Coaster Decaffeinated Coffee

This coffee is a Medium/Medium Dark roast, so works well in pressure devices such as an espresso maker, AeroPress or moka pot. However, it’ll brew very happily in any device!

If you want to know more, see our brew guides for making coffee.

Translating to ‘Sleep Well’ in Swahili, this coffee has certainly been named with decaffeination in mind! These beans were carefully grown under the guidance of the RTC’s Agribusiness Training Programme, which trains farmers in the community to use organic fertiliser made from discarded cherry pulp and manure.

Collected from small estates in the Nyamasheke district in Rwanda’s Western Province, these coffee plots benefit from high elevations of over 1600 metres above sea level. Combined with the perfect climate for growing speciality Arabica, they annually produce a high yield of cherries with a strong reputation for excellent flavours in the cup.

A small washing station just 5km from the Karambi Mountains processed these beans using water from the Mutovu River, which flows through the site’s base. The water, once used, undergoes treatment via filtration systems with added lime to raise PH levels before being moved to small lagoons for anaerobic breakdown and evaporation.

They have 5 full-time employees, which increases to 70 during the harvesting season, and 90% of this staff is women. The annual production rate of this station is approximately 300 tonnes and has been steadily increasing since 2018. On average, the farms where they source their cherries have around 3500 coffee trees, which are routinely harvested when perfectly ripe.

Roasting is key to achieving uber-delicious coffee. Even the best speciality beans will taste bog-standard if the roast isn’t spot on.

Luckily, we know the secrets behind a great roast, so your coffee beans are in safe hands! Small-batch roasting comes first, as this means we can customise every roast to the specific requirements of the beans. Then there’s our hand-roasting technique: rather than letting a machine take the lead, we use all our senses to time each roast to the second.

What comes next? Ahhh, that would be our regular roasting. We roast our speciality beans multiple times a week to ensure that we always send the freshest coffee beans to your door.

Ordered some coffee from us? We’ll have roasted it only days before. Yum!

Every speciality coffee has a score: a jolly number out of 100. If this number is below 80, the coffee isn’t speciality. It’s commodity, instead and ends up in supermarket instant and chain café cups. It’ll give you caffeine, but it won’t give you FLAVOUR.

Want coffee that is super-delicious, free from defects and perfectly sweet? Yeees? Then speciality coffee scoring 80 points plus is for you!

Speciality coffee ticks all the boxes. From acidity and balance to mouthfeel and aroma, it’s the best all around! Certified Q Graders test the coffee on all these factors (and more) before giving it a score. The coffee gets the speciality title if that score is 80 or more!

But, a word of advice. Don’t choose coffee based purely on the cupping score. Higher scores often indicate more experimental coffees, or ones with some offbeat flavours. This doesn’t mean you’ll like the coffee taste any more. Go with your gut – you know what you like most!

Two Chimps coffees all sit in the 80-90 range. We tend not to source anything in the high 90s, as this is often a marker of a very very rare coffee (rather than one we think you’ll love)! We always keep flavour and smiles in mind when selecting your coffee range!

The decaffeination process begins by steaming the green beans drawing the caffeine molecules to the surface. They are then washed in sparkling water, which attracts the caffeine to wiggle out into the water and then discarded, leaving our beans caffeine-free! After a final steam to remove any sparkling water residue, the beans are sun-dried and packaged before being shipped to us to roast to perfection!

Roast Style: Medium

Location: Lala Salama, Gitega Hills

Varietal(s): Red Bourbon

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1600-1800 metres above sea level

Country: Rwanda

Certification: Speciality

Decaffeinated Process: Sparkling Water

Score: 83.75

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

Our speciality coffees taste good, do good, smell good…

Choosing speciality beans from our little Rutland roastery means that you’re getting the very finest, ethically sourced coffee. We keep our supply chain to a minimum to make sure that a higher percentage of the profits go straight to the farmers. What’s more, our roastery is carbon neutral, so you know you are getting top-notch coffee that takes care of the planet.

We’re a jolly bunch of people with a genuine passion for coffee. Just give us a call if you fancy chatting coffee – we’re always on hand to help!