Sunday Morning Biscuit Thief Sample

While this coffee tastes awesome in every device, our favourites are a filter, Chemex or cafetiere.

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

Coming from the Rwenzori Mountains in Uganda, these beans have been grown by the Bukonzo Organic Farmers Co-operative Union. Formed in 2009, this group was established to help improve the quality of coffee beans grown, whilst increasing the commercial demand and therefore profits returned.

Despite its excellent growing conditions for Arabica, such as nutrient-rich volcanic soil, this area of Uganda has a history of coffees of lower commercial value due to poor processing techniques. Therefore, this was the first thing Bukonzo set out to change. They invested in 36 local micro-washing stations, which have dramatically increased the quality of coffee beans produced.

Bukonzo also holds sustainability as one of its core fundamentals, with organic fertilisers being favoured, as well as intercropping with bananas, fruit trees, vanilla, passionfruit and mango trees. This helps to improve soil quality, reduce pest and disease threats and increase yield.

To find a coffees ‘quality’ score, a process known as ‘cupping’ is used. The only coffee we source and roast is speciality coffee. This type of coffee must get a score of at least 80 points. If this score is not achieved, the coffee won’t be speciality coffee. Want to know more? Check out our guide to coffee cupping to see what’s involved.

When we hand roast our coffees, we never ‘over roast’. The roasting process is used to bring out the natural flavours and aromas in the coffee. If we roast a coffee too dark, it’ll hide these natural flavours as they migrate towards burnt and bitter flavours. As the coffee we roast is such high quality, instead of roasting to hide the flavours, we can roast to highlight them! The coffees we roast are never bitter or burnt. Instead, they are all naturally sweet (not like a sugary sweetness, just naturally sweet) and all bursting with different flavours.

None of the coffees we source are ever the same. Some of them have a chocolatey note, and others are fruity. The farmers and workers who harvest and nurture the coffee work tirelessly to always produce a great product. We feel it’s our duty to get the most out of every bean we have.

Roast Style: Light & fruity

Location: Kasese, Rwenzori Mountains

Varietal(s): SL14, SL28

Processing: Washed

Altitude: 1600-2000 metres above sea level

Country: Uganda

Certification: Specialty

Producer: Bukonzo Organic Farmers’ Co-operative Union

Score: 83.75

What does this all mean? Check out our Jargon Buster.

By you purchasing speciality coffee from us, you are helping coffee farmers and workers throughout the globe who we source our coffee from. We ensure that we pay between 30 and 150% more than the ‘going rate’ for our green coffee. This means the farmers get paid more for their crops. This gives them the opportunity for better living conditions and, hopefully, an even better harvest next year.

We make sure the supply chain is kept as short as possible. This way, even more makes it back to the farm and its workers.

So pat yourself on the back. You are making a difference.

After an exciting weekend filled with coffee courses, we returned to the roastery on Monday morning to find our biscuit jar completely empty! The mischievous culprit? Our Sunday Morning Biscuit Thief- Head Chimp Andy, who was on a little quest for a sugar boost!