Buffa Lo

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are an espresso machine, Aeropress & moka pot.

If you want to know more, see our brew guides for making coffee.

This coffee is produced by Mount Sunzu Coffee Ltd, a company located in northern Zambia. Since 2018, they have been dedicated to increasing coffee production through sustainable farming practices, the use of new technology, and a strong commitment to social and environmental responsibility.

Mount Sunzu is located in Mbala, at the foot of Zambia’s highest mountain, and the farm spans 115 acres, all of which is dedicated to coffee cultivation. Thanks to its commitment to both sustainable farming and the use of new technologies, the farm utilises various coffee processing methods, including natural, honey, and fully washed.

It pays its 120 full-time employees and up to 120 further seasonal workers fair wages for their efforts and is committed to constructing new roads, improving soil conditions and installing new solar irrigation systems in the local area.

Every coffee is ‘cupped’ to determine its quality score. Here at Two Chimps Coffee, we only source and roast speciality coffee. In other words, we’re only interested in coffees that gain a score of 80 points or above. Q Graders score each coffee on a number of factors, including its taste, aroma and mouthfeel. Not sure what coffee cupping is? We have a page all about it – get clued up on coffee cupping right here.

We never ‘over roast’ our coffees – nor will we ever need to! We use the roasting process to bring out the natural flavours and aromas of the coffee, rather than following in the footsteps of most commodity roasters and masking unwanted tastes by roasting too dark. Overroasting replaces every flavour, good and bad, with burnt, bitter tastes. Not what you want for a standout cup.

We only ever start with high-grade beans, so have no need to overroast and hide yucky flavours. Instead, we can roast to showcase each coffee in its full light.

We’re proud to say that our coffees will never taste the same as each other. Some have naturally occurring chocolatey notes, while others have mentions of fruit. We owe the opportunity to roast awesome coffee to the coffee farmers and workers who grew them. So to them, we say thank you.

When you are happily sipping on our speciality coffees, you can rest easy knowing:

• Your brew has been ethically sourced via a short supply chain
• The coffee farmers who grew this coffee have been paid 30 – 150% more than the standard ‘going rate’
• You are supporting a small carbon-neutral company
• This coffee supports vital movements and programmes to better the coffee industry

Your little bag of coffee is changing lives. High five!

Originally it was a buffer… ‘cos we (like the rest of the world) were lo on coffee. However, we decided that we liked it that much (and knew you would, too), that we’d make Buffa Lo a full-time option. Enjoy!