Our featured coffee for July is an old favorite, Uganda Organic Sipi Falls. This washed coffee is wild and unique with a touch of acidity up front that quickly fades into a long spicy chocolate finish. The beginning of the cup has a slight orange peel acidity that quickly fades into baker's chocolate notes in the middle. The finish has nice cinnamon notes that reminded us of a snickerdoodle but not quite as sweet. The aftertaste is dry and chocolatey with some citrus sweetness. 

Roast Color: Medium-Dark

Certifications: Organic

Cupping Notes: Baker's Chocolate, Cinnamon, Orange Peel

About the coffee of the month: We feature a new coffee every month. This allows us to explore more of the world of coffee outside of our normal offerings. It is available this month only, while supplies last. 

Story: Sipi Falls, named after the Mount Elgon's most famous waterfall just down the road, is a centralized wet mill located in the Kapchorwa district that buys and processes cherry from 8,000 organic and diversified farms across the northern part of the mountain. The sheer volume of quality coffee produced by this single wet mill is a testament to the truly ideal conditions of elevation, biological wealth, and human experience that abound between the farmers and Sipi Falls’ management team. 

The wet mill was Africa’s first certified organic producer. The vast majority of coffee coming off the mountain is pulped in tiny batches, often on borrowed equipment, and fermented in a bucket or a nylon bag prior to being tarp-dried on the ground, or at best on a mesh screen a few inches above the patio.

Sipi Falls facilitates retrieval of cherry, mechanical de-mucilaging, fermentation, washing, patio pre-drying, mechanical drying and conditioning at their mill property at 1800m elevation. The qualities produced by scaling and centralizing processing mean a significantly higher cherry price to farmers; not to mention relieving them of the extended labor, risk, and expense of processing and storing coffee at the household level. The wet mill also recycles its wastewater through a series of filtered lagoons and maintains a large organic nursery for the benefit of participating farmers.