Uganda Bugisu "Kabum"

In today's world economy, the appetite for coffee is second only to that of oil in the commodities markets. Consequently, there's no shortage of beans being grown on farmland all around the globe. But in the vast majority of those regions, local growers — the ones who toil and sweat in their fields every day — rarely see any real profits from their efforts.

Ideas like "fair trade," "direct trade" and "farmer co-op" have gone a ways to help improve the price paid to farmers and to make sure they're more fairly compensated for their hard work and for their product. Kabum, on the other hand, takes it up several notches. Whereas fair trade raises the floor of what local farmers are paid, the Kabum project sends the vast majority of profits back to the individual growers. They also pay retroactive bonuses for a quality product after harvest time and administer micro- loans so that individual farmers can own their own land and their own equipment and aren't beholden to others in the harvesting process. At Lost Dutchman Coffee, we are very happy to help promote the Kabum project. The coffee cups very well and we hope to be able to keep it as a regular item on our offering list

Cup Characteristics:
Malty at a darker roast with cedar-pine like overtones. Strong finish and high on caffeine.

Roasting Tips: Full City seems to be the sweet spot. This is not what we consider a "delicate" coffee such as a very high grown El Salvador or Panama, so if roasted light, it will not produce the almost perfume-like aroma like one would expect out of a high quality Central American estate coffee. Instead, it should be roasted rather hard to produce a vibrant boldness in both flavor and aroma (don't burn or scorch, of course!).