Uganda Gorilla Summit 'Blue Roller' Honey

This honey processed microlot was sourced from 500 smallholder farmers in the community of Kayungwe near Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in South West Uganda. These farmers supply cherries to our long time partner in the region Gorilla Summit, who process the coffee at their washing station in neighbourhing Kanungu.

Gorilla Summit Development Limited is an independent coffee company started by local Ugandan Gerald Mbabazi, whose family has long been involved with schooling in the region. Kanungu has historically produced rather poor quality coffee due to lack of investment, infrastructure and local market. However, the conditions for specialty arabica production are excellent. Gerald recognised the opportunity to grow the local coffee economy by building a central washing station paying  higher prices to farmers for ripe cherry. 

Gerald's vision for Gorilla Summit is to use specialty coffee to transform producing communities by investing profits in healthcare, food security and education. We are proud to work alongside this project which consistently supplies great quality coffees and brings transformative change to some of the poorest communities in Uganda.

Ripe coffee cherries are selectively harvested and then delivered to the wetmill. The cherries are floated in a clean water tank to separate by density (lower quality cherries float and are removed). The selected cherries are then pulped and immediately dried on raised beds for 4-6 weeks.

After drying the coffee is rested in its parchment for around 1 month before moving to a dry mill for secondary processing (hulling, sorting, grading, handpicking and bagging in Grainpro/Ecotact bags for export)