About The Coffee

A gorgeous washed, Rwandan Speciality Coffee that does everything you want in the cup. Lovely black tea notes with juicy raspberry and a moreish blood orange acidity. Recommended as Espresso Coffee but can be brewed as a more robust filter coffee too.

Founded in 2017, COCAGI Femmes is a group of 298 women coffee growers located in the southwest of Rwanda. Gender equity is a main priority for the cooperative with women making up more than 30% of the elected seats for the larger COCAGI group. The objective of the group is to promote women economically, increase their visibility and engage them in decision-making. The perfect match for GWGC, right!

Besides their own coffee trees, the members have three initiatives to generate income to develop themselves and meet their social needs within their families; a ‘savings and credit’ scheme, an ‘animal husbandry’ scheme and an organic coffee farming project which started in 2019 with a target of having 30,000 coffee trees by 2025. They are supported technically by two female Agronomists, Patricie and Adeline and paid by COCAGI.

Coffee fruit delivered by the women producers is tagged, dated, and processed separately – this coffee is branded as “Agasaro” the Kinyarawanda word for “beads” worn decoratively in the hair and as jewellery. This is an important step in creating visibility and awareness for the women farmers and their high-quality coffee.

TASTE NOTES

CHOCOLATE. RASPBERRY RIPPLE. BLOOD ORANGE. BLACK TEA.

Producers: Cocagi Femmes
Country: Rwanda
Region: Rusizi district
Varieties : Bourbon RAC15
Process: Washed
MASL: 1750

Be sure to check out the story of this coffee here at GWGC’s website

“We are a womxn-led, anti-patriarchy specialty coffee roastery and rebellion movement.  We source all our coffees exclusively from change-making womxn producers.  We celebrate their work and share their stories, ensuring representation and  visibility and, what the hell, roast their crazy delicious coffee.

To give back to the producers in exchange for everything they give, above and beyond the beans themselves, we run the Cheek to Cheek initiative, putting 10% of the sale price of all our retail coffees back into their pockets.  They are part of our team, part of the rebellion.

Our lives were saved by coffee and rebellion, but the rebellion doesn’t end with coffee, that’s just the beginning.  We are a community of rebels making positive changes in other areas that the patriarchy would love to see us shut out of. Nice try.  We seek out fellow anarchists who do their own thing and dismantle misogyny along the way.  Skaters, bikers, writers, riders, punks and producers, engineers and entrepreneurs, join the rebellion.  Through collaborative events, sponsorship, ambassadorship and more; we are here to support you, to be seen and heard, and stay strong AF doing it.

We are two things.  Pro-coffee and anti-patriarchy.  And awesome.  That’s three things.  Deal with it.”

Here at The Malt Miller we are focused on finding new and interesting Coffee for you to enjoy at home either as a stand alone beverage or for you to brew beer with. We offer the option for your coffee to be ground to order or for you to have it delivered as whole beans, all in quantity’s that you specific and work for your needs.

We offer the option to grind coffee for either filter or espresso. We grind your coffee for a generic setting that will suit a lot of purposes, if you choose espresso grind please note this has been set to grind for a “pressurised” machine that you might find in most domestic settings however if you have a more advanced espresso machine we would recommend whole bean and grinding at home so you can dial in your perfect shot.