A silky smooth coffee with a delicate mouthfeel and aromas of milk chocolate, oranges, and grapefruit.
This coffee is a limited run.
Cultivar/Variety: Bourbon
Flavour notes: Milk chocolate, oranges, raisins, grapefruit
Producer: Simbi Coffee Investments
Country: Rwanda
Region: Southern Province
Process: Washed
Roasting profile: Light
Content: Whole beans
Bag size: 250 g
I found Muteteli to be a truly interesting coffee, as it manages to capture the best from all parts of Rwanda. The coffee is a combination of beans from the northern, southern, and western regions of Rwanda. When brewed as a cappuccino, the sweetness from the warm milk perfectly complements the coffee's chocolate notes. The orange-like notes also really stand out, creating an association with "orange chocolate." This fruitiness helps create an amazing coffee, both as espresso and filter coffee. As an espresso, it has a deep fruitiness and sweetness, while as a filter coffee, it is more delicate and floral.
Filter: We recommend you to use a scale and a brewing technique you are familiar with to ensure consistent results while brewing our coffee. Using a digital scale while measuring both coffee beans and water for brewing will greatly increase consistency. We brew with 50-60 g of coffee per litre (1000 g) water.
Recipe:
Dose: 15 g
Water: 250 g, 95°C
Grind size: ~600 µm
Brew time: 3:00 - 3:20 minutes
Target TDS: 1.25 - 1.35
Espresso: We recommend you to use a VST filter basket when brewing espresso with our coffee. These baskets make it a lot easier to brew the espresso and each basket is very close to identical, which helps increase consistency. With the VST filter basket 18 g, try this recipe.
Recipe:
Dose in: 18,5 g
Dose out: 45 g
Grind size: ~320 µm
Brew time: ~27 seconds
Target TDS: 7 - 8
Coffee from Rwanda is incredibly complex and offers a wide range of flavour experiences, depending on where in the country it is grown. The coffee can offer a fantastic mouthfeel, sweetness, fruity notes, and floral flavours. Rwandan coffee often has slightly more subdued fruit notes than Kenyan coffee, but it can also feature tea-like and floral flavours often found in Ethiopian coffee.
This coffee is a combination from several different regions in Rwanda: the west, south, and north. In the west, the coffee grows close to Lake Kivu, where the slightly cooler climate compared to the eastern part of the country creates ideal conditions for coffee cultivation. In the south, the coffee comes from areas with dense forests, while in the north, it grows in volcanic soil that is rich in minerals, giving the beans a tropical fruitiness.
All of this makes the coffee versatile and exciting, whether enjoyed as espresso, cappuccino, or filter coffee.
Freshness is of utmost importance to us, and to minimise food waste, we roast our coffee every Tuesday. This means you can expect your coffee to be shipped the following Wednesday. By roasting in small batches, we ensure that we don’t produce more coffee than needed, preventing it from going stale on the shelf. This way, you receive freshly roasted coffee right to your door.
