This week the Cup of Excellence comes to Burundi. An amazing opportunity for the Burundi producers to showcase just how amazing their coffee is. The COE is widely thought to be the pinnacle of success for many coffee producers. This competition will highlight just how special Burundi speciality coffee is while promoting the hard working producers who create the amazing coffees entered.
Last year I had the opportunity to be a juror on the inaugural Prestige Cup, or Cup of Excellence “pre” opening year. This year I’m not judging but I am very excited to see the outcome of this internationally judged competition. Leading up to the event I cupped through hundreds of micro lots from across Burundi searching for the finest micro lots. Many of the lots selected to enter into the competition are ones that I have cupped. I thought it would be fun to make some predictions on what I think will be, or should be, Burundi’s top five micro lots in the first ever Burundi Cup of Excellence.
Enjoy my attempt at predicting the winners (and try not to take this too seriously or be offended if I didn’t mention your favorite lot). And if I’m wrong I still enjoyed the journey to discover my top five.
Cup of Excellence Burundi from Ben Carlson on Vimeo.
Fun to make. But will my guesses be right?
Coffee guy
Hi Ben,
I am Billy(Burundian), and I learned so much about the coffee in Burundi and its enormous potential through your interview on Imagine Burundi. Would u be interested in doing a TV interview about ikawa in Burundi? The TV host will ask quesions in French, I will translate the question in English, you will answer in English and I will answer back in French to the tv host. Probably a 50 min segment. The tv station is Heritage TV, a christian channel. My cell# 75-800-100 and my email(gtamanual1@gmail.com). There is no rush, since the channel has to find a slot in the programming. But I will be glad to hear from you.
Cheers.
Billy
Amazing little analysis of the coffee of Burundi. Cannot wait to cup a cupa myself.
I don’t know, sounds like one of those sleepers could slip in to the running. I never thought of all those flavors as I drank my last cup of “Joe”.