Origin: Rwanda
Processing: washed
Tasting Notes: raspberry leaf tea, lemon, milk chocolate
Ikawa Yacu is a cooperative that means "Coffee Together." It joined forces in 2020 with Kula, a non-profit whose mission is to eradicate poverty by developing entrepreneurs in Rwanda's coffee communities. This joint effort has resulted in the supplying farmers of Ikawa Yacu Cooperative and graduates of Kula's Fellowship to more than triple their income and double their coffee harvest within one year.
Coffee tastes like coffee, but if you're paying attention, it also tastes like a lot of other things. Ikawa Yacu has notes of raspberry leaf tea, lemon, and milk chocolate.
Autumn and Luke moved back to their hometown of Omaha in 2010 to open a small bakery, eventually buying out the coffee shop they were leasing their commercial kitchen from. They began roasting their own coffee in 2015 and now have three locations. To them, specialty coffee (and all that goes with it) isn’t so much about indulgence, but ritual–having places and moments and things in life that add value and create rhythm. Based in Omaha, Nebraska.
