Our August Coffee of the Month is a rich and decadent coffee. It is full bodied and heavy on the tongue with very little acidity. This flavorful cup starts with a subtle bite of dark chocolate on the tongue, followed by sweet Ceylon cinnamon notes. The finish is long and smooth on the palate with prominent sweet chocolate notes and hints of almond. This coffee is like dessert in a cup, and the aftertaste reminds us of a rich chocolate almond cake.

Roast Color: Medium-Dark

Certifications: Organic, Rainforest Alliance

Cupping Notes: Chocolate, Cinnamon, Almond

*Recommended For Cold Brew*

Cold Brew Notes: Dark Chocolate (the 70% super dark one), Heavy Body

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.