MaxiMUMly

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

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

Sourced from smallholder producers on Shikankoni Hill in Kayanza, this naturally processed coffee has been cultivated in partnership with Cafex. This project was created by a Belgian-Burundian couple to develop sustainable coffee production whilst retaining the preservation of ancestral lands.

Cafex’s work will protect the future of the coffee industry in this area and benefit the livelihood of the local communities. The local station run by Cafex has also provided stable employment with better salaries for both men and women in the area.

This lot was milled and exported by Ikawa Nziza, who started his partnership with Cafex and Covoya in 2013 to build and promote speciality coffee production in Burundi. Nziza’s mill is the first purpose-built speciality dry mill to be built in this area, with it sitting at a high altitude to make it easily accessible for every farmer.

The process begins by handpicking the ripest cherries before sun-drying on raised African beds. The beans are allowed to ferment inside the fruit, routinely turning every 2 hours in the first few days to ensure an even fermentation. To prevent sun damage and over-fermentation, they are covered at midday.

Once the optimum moisture levels have been reached, the coffee is transported to Ikawa Nziza’s dry mill in Gashoho to be milled. Its high altitude and low humidity environment provide the perfect conditions for preserving the quality of the coffee and secures a high price for the farmers.

The beans are removed from the fruit, washed, and dried once again before being transported to Mombasa for shipment. It’s then sent to us at Two Chimps HQ, where artisan roasters will roast it to perfection, creating this awesome limited-edition Mother’s Day brew.

We only source speciality coffee at Two Chimps, as we only want the best of the best! Coffee is deemed a speciality when marked by Q Graders, who conduct an in-depth cupping process, marking the coffee based on aroma, mouth feel, taste, and more. If a coffee scores below 80, it is viewed as commodity, with anything 80+ earning the title of speciality.

Take a look at our cupping page to learn more about this process.

Fresh, carefully roasted coffee beans are what you want. Over-roasting is like scorching your toast big time – you get flavours that are bitter and burnt.

We never over-roast any of our coffees here at TC. Why? Because we don’t need to. All our beans are speciality arabica and hand-picked to ensure peak ripeness. Ripe beans are naturally sweet (think about a ripe, burstingly juicy blackberry), so provide us with delicious layers of flavour to highlight in the roasting process.

Compare this to supermarket stuff and instant blends, which are often over-roasted to mask the unpleasant taste of low-grade robusta beans. Over-roasting hides these bad tastes… but replaces them with burnt ones!

Choose speciality Two Chimps instead, and you’ll find a cup bursting with bright flavour and natural sweetness!

Roast Style: Light & fruity

Location: Shikankoni Hill, Kayanza

Varietal(s): Bourbon

Processing: Natural/Dry Processed

Altitude: 1650-2000 metres above sea level

Country: Burundi

Certification: Speciality

Score: 84

Produced by: Cafex

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Choose speciality Two Chimps, and you’re not just getting insanely delicious coffee from a cool indie business. You’re doing a mighty amount of good for people and the planet!

We mindfully source your coffee from small farms and estates and pay 30-150% more than the going rate – this means more gets back to the farmers. It also means we go above and beyond Fairtrade standards!

Did you know your Two Chimps coffee is carbon-neutral, too? We’ve recently partnered with Positive Planet to offset all the carbon emissions in your cup, because the world needs to take priority. We all have a responsibility to do our bit – and now you can do it in the most delicious way possible!

Think of the chaos that Mum deals with on a day-to-day basis; she always puts her MaxiMUM into everything she does. So, it only seems fair she gets a brew as MaxiMUMly as awesome as she is!