Origin: Rwanda 100% Arabica beans The dry fragrance has light brown sugar sweetness, with apple butter and cinnamon. Perhaps a more accurate geographical descriptor for the coffee origins we focus on this month may be African Great Lakes coffees rather than Central Africa coffees. The growing regions that produced almost all of the thirty coffees we cupped this month are clustered around or near the gigantic lakes that dominate the geography of the mountainous central-east region of Africa, at or near the equator and just to the east of the geographical center of the continent. Particularly important in this coffee geography is Lake Kivu, which influences the coffees of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the northern end of Lake Tanganyika, which may influence Burundi coffees. Farther south, Lake Nyasa pokes up close to the Mbeya growing region of Tanzania.
