About this Coffee

Producer Valentin Kiyenmi shares his vision behind this particular coffee offering. “The Ireme (Authentic) experimental lot is inspired by the emotional connection of our family to the coffee community as a whole. Coffee farming, processing, and distribution for consumption have been kept in silos and our family believes that this can change. The idea of this coffee is to provide the most authentic coffee cup of Rwandan coffee to coffee lovers, making the consumer think of the producer as the grower and also keeping the buyer in mind when processing the coffee”.

Gasharu Coffee's team takes great care to monitor and enhance the fermentation process and duration to achieve the desired complexity and depth that will provide a memorable experience to coffee lovers. “At Gasharu Coffee we believe that a cup of authentic coffee can truly connect communities”, Kimenyi states. “As a coffee farming family and member of a coffee community, our hope is that Ireme (Authentic) Coffee will convey our motivation to connect with the consumers and their communities and build meaningful and sustainable relationships between both communities”.

The coffee used for the Ireme experimental coffee are collected from farms situated above 1610 MASL. Once collected at the washing station, the cherries are sorted and floated to ensure consistent and good density beans are separated from the others. Then the cherries are put in tanks where they undergo 72 hours of anaerobic fermentation to attain the best flavour and taste that can be achieved and then dried on the raised African beds for about 25 to 30 days.