Tinsing A Boo out – Sample

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter, Chemex or cafetiere.

Head over to our brew guides for making coffee for more.

We’ve partnered with Project Waterfall with this extra-special brew, with £1 of each bag purchased donated to this incredible charity. Project Waterfall brings clean water, sanitation and education to coffee-growing communities worldwide. So far, they have raised over £1.5 million and changed more than 70,000 lives in 7 countries.

This coffee comes from the Akagera region in eastern Rwanda and was cultivated by the Gasange Co-operative, which Valentin Kamenyi runs. This awesome co-operative partners with 1,315 smallholder farmers in the area.

The ripe cherries are carefully hand-picked and then floated in a water tank to remove the under-ripe and overripe cherries. After that, they are spread out across raised beds to bask in the sun for 30-40 days, depending on the weather. During this time, the fruit is turned regularly, and farmers keep an eye out for any cherries with physical defects or any that have become over-fermented or mouldy. When the midday sun is at its strongest or when it’s raining, the cherries are covered to protect them from damage.

Once complete, the beans are removed and washed before being dried and packaged. They are then sent to be exported, where we eagerly await their arrival at Two Chimps H.Q. Our talented roaster then works his magic to bring you the perfect cup of coffee!

Here at Two Chimps, our main coffees stay with us for around 8 – 12 months. Our limited edition coffees however, change more frequently. We source our coffees from small farms, cooperatives and single estates, meaning when a coffee has been harvested, processed and drunk, it is all gone. Our limited edition coffees will change every 3 – 4 months and are a great way of trying new and interesting coffees more frequently. They won’t follow a pattern of particular flavours or characteristics, but we can guarantee they will all be super interesting and tasty!

Every coffee has a score. If it’s below 80 points, the coffee is commodity. If it’s super-delicious, free from defects and scored 80 points or above, it’s speciality coffee!

Speciality coffee is better all round: acidity, balance, mouthfeel, aroma… Speciality coffee ticks all the boxes!

But, watch out. Don’t choose your coffee based purely on the score! A higher score might denote a more experimental coffee, or one with a very interesting lemony flavour, for example. This doesn’t mean you’ll like the flavour more than one that scored a little lower. Go with your gut – you know what you enjoy most!

Our awesome TC coffees all sit in the scrummy 80-90 region. We tend not to go for anything in the high 90s, as scores this high sometimes indicate an exceptionally rare coffee rather than one we think you’ll love! We always keep your cup in mind when selecting our coffee range!

We hand roast all of our coffees to bring out the most from each bean. We keep our roasts lighter too; to avoid any bitter or burnt notes. This way, you get to taste every flavour and characteristic of each coffee that the farmers worked so hard to produce. Lower grades of coffee will play host to undesirable flavours within the beans, resulting in a darker roast to mask these, but leaving a bitter taste. Luckily for you, we don’t need to do this. All of our coffees are smooth and sweet with natural flavours throughout.

Roast Style: Light & Fruity

Location: Gasange Coffee Co-operative, Akagera

Varietal(s): Bourbon

Processing: Natural

Altitude: 1800-2000 metres above sea level

Country: Rwanda

Certification: Speciality

Score: 84

When you purchase a bag of Two Chimps Coffee, you are supporting the hard-working farmers who grow and harvest these amazing coffees.

We pay between 30 and 150% more for our coffee than the commodity-grade price. This, in turn, means more for the farmers, giving them capital to invest in better living conditions and an even better crop next year.

Keeping the supply chain as short as possible allows more money to make it to the farm and it’s workers. So from the team here at Two Chimps – high five and thank you!

So our white labelled limited edition coffee follows the things that head chimps, Laura & Andy’s, children do and say. So this is the next one… Felix was watching a film and there is a famous phrase said in the film… Felix repeated it how he thought it sounds…. And here we have Tinsing a boo out. Have fun guessing the film 😊