Burundi Hafi Station

About this coffee

We are in love with this coffee! This newest crop has all the great floral blueberry and lemon notes of last year's crop, but we found this year's crop very balanced being very bright and sweet lemony without the wicked sharp acidity that can often accompany these bright juicy coffees. 

The remotest of the remote! That's often where you find the prize. In the hills of Muyinga Province, the farmers of Hafi coffee would face more than a day's journey if they tried to deliver their freshly harvested coffees to the nearest wet mill. It was even difficult for JNP Coffee to visit them as it's a six-hour journey from Bujumbura if the roads aren't washed out. Jeanine did visit though and what she found was that these farmers in their remoteness had become masters of the natural process. They had developed a 24- and 48-hour anaerobic process for closing the coffee cherries in raised beds. This controlled fermentation adds a jamminess to the coffee as well as other wonderfully complex multi-layered flavors. Hafi is named for the farmers' desire to have a washing station nearby. Hafi means "near" in Kirundi.

JNP Coffee sources exceptional coffees grown in the mountains of Burundi that are notable for their pleasant brightness, and fruit and floral characteristics. All of our coffees are small production lots prized by experts and by coffee lovers. The quality is genuine and pure.