The story
Where this coffee comes from.
SL14 · SL28 · 96h Extended Natural
Guava, overripe peach and mulled wine — whole cherries sealed for a 96-hour extended dry fermentation at Mt. Elgon’s Coffee Yards, then dried slow on raised beds with shade managed to protect the fruit. Four days of patience, held to a plan — fruit this ripe doesn’t happen by accident.
Tasting notes
Guava · Overripe peach · Magnolia · Pear · Mulled wine
Origin
- Country: Uganda
- Region: Mt. Elgon (near Mbale)
- Producer: The Coffee Yards · Norman Mukuru — 4 community stations, ~300 smallholders
- Altitude: 1,400–2,000 m.a.s.l.
- Varietals: SL14 · SL28 · Nyasaland
- Process: Extended natural — whole cherries sealed for ~96 hours of dry fermentation
- Drying: Slow, on raised beds, shade-managed to protect the fruit
- Arrival cupping (importer): 86.25
- Harvest: 2025 crop
Roast
Light-Medium development — lush stone fruit with a floral magnolia top; roasted to keep the mulled-wine depth from turning heavy. Roasted in small rounds, sealed the same day.
Why Uganda
Uganda is the origin most coffee shelves forgot — and Mt. Elgon, on the Kenyan border, grows heritage SL varieties at serious altitude. Norman Mukuru built collection and processing networks for one of Uganda’s largest coffee exporters; when it collapsed, he built his own. The Coffee Yards is his central processing hub outside Mbale — raised beds, fermentation tanks, agronomists and QC staff — buying cherry from about 300 smallholder families at the mountain’s highest elevations.
