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Last year we found a delicious coffee on the cupping table, Mushaka, from the Rusizi district of Rwanda. We bought it, but it was a site we had not visited before. So on the next trip to Rwanda, May 2025, I made a point to get to Mushaka along with JJ, so we could see where the coffee is coming from, how they are working, and to meet the owner Beathe, who lives just up the way from the site on the main road. As it turns out they had trouble with their disc pulper, potentially ruining the batch of coffee from the day before. But they had found a way around it ... to rely on grading the coffee after fermentation. Such is the pragmatism of managing a rural operation.

While we don't spend a lot of time on the ground on our visits, it's still important to make these connections, meet the people producing the coffee, and get a feel for the location and how they work the coffee. That's a big part of why we travel. -Thompson, May 2025

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