The Brew Blog

Yellow Bourbon is a natural mutation of Red Bourbon prized in Brazil for its sweetness and harvest consistency. Here's what the color difference means in the cup.

Red Bourbon is the original color expression of Bourbon — prized in Rwanda and El Salvador for bright acidity and complex red fruit. Here's what sets it apart.

Musanze coffee grows at up to 2,300m on Virunga volcanic soils in northern Rwanda. More structured and mineral than lake-region lots. A distinct East African origin.

Kayonza coffee comes from eastern Rwanda at 1,400–1,700m — fuller-bodied and more approachable than western province lots. Rwanda's accessible specialty alternative.

Nyamasheke is Rwanda's premier specialty coffee region, on the shores of Lake Kivu at 1,700–2,000m. Floral, stone fruit, elegant Bourbon. Here's what makes it exceptional.

Bourbon is the varietal that defined modern specialty coffee — sweet, rounded, complex. Here's the full story of Bourbon and its mutations (yellow, pink, pointu).