Uganda Long Miles Lunar Station

Origin

• 🇺🇬 Uganda

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  30
• Clean
  20
• Funky
  20

Rose. Cranberry. Milk Chocolate. Plum . Ships within 1 week after roast dateRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. 100% specialty arabica coffee beans only Onyx's coffee beans are at their peak 2 to 3 weeks after roasting Origin Uganda VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process. SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. Processing NaturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. Preferred Extraction Filter & Espresso RoastEspresso / omni roastAn 'espresso roast' is developed further for extraction under pressure; an 'omni roast' is profiled to work for both espresso and filter from one bag. Level Expressive Light Agtro #126 Production Roaster Diedrich CR-35 About this coffee: This out-of-this-world offering returns by way of Long Miles Coffee. With the hard-earned knowledge they've gleaned from years of work in Burundi, they ventured into the Rwenzori Mountains to develop a new project in this little explored producing country. This natural is produced with the production team from Long Miles Burundi, in collaboration with the producers of this area. The Story: This coffee came about through a partnership with Long Miles Coffee, whom we have partnered with for a few years. We source for not only stunning Burundi Coffees from them, but also for the most energetic coffee antidotes from Ben Carlson. Read Ben's description below for more info on this coffee. Long Miles Coffee searched for where to grow after 10 years of producing some of East Africa’s best coffee in the small landlocked country of Burundi. Largely unknown for specialty coffee, Uganda seemed, at best, a commercial option for Robusta or poorly-processed Mount Elgon coffee in the east of the country. Starting in 2018 Ben Carlson, co-founder of LMC, set out to explore why coffee was so average in a country of great altitude and deep history of coffee production. A four year journey led Ben and the LMC team to land on the little known and quite possibly finest growing location in the world, Western Uganda’s Rwenzori Mountains. [These] Mountains stretch from the hot Western Uganda town of Kasese up to Fort Portal. This mountain range is called the Mountains of the Moon because of its awe inspiring snow capped peaks in the midst of the heart of Africa. These daunting peeks separate Uganda from DR Congo. Micro-climates created