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Kageyo – Rwanda

Name: Kageyo – Rwanda
Brand: Create Coffee Roasters
Availability: InStock

Imagine honey-lavender macarons · lemon verbena · lime · vanilla · cocoa nibs · almond · peanut butter · citrus

Floral Caramel and sweet Citrus Chocolate NuttyFor filterFor espresso

60,00 €/kg

15,00 € for 250 g · about 1,08 € for an 18 g espresso dose

Price observed 5 Nov 2026. This is the bag, not the basket: delivery is not included.

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What Create Coffee Roasters says about this coffee

Kageyo. Rwanda. Red Bourbon. Washed.

Every bean has a story

This coffee from Rwanda is a tasty wonder!

KAGEYO WASHING STATION

Kageyo washing station is situated in the fertile highlands skirting Lake Kivu in the west of the country. It was established in 2009, when a cooperative of smallholder farmers received a loan to build a CPU where they could process their coffees. These smallholders grow coffee on small plots amongst the surrounding hills, where altitudes undulate between 1800 and 2000 meters.

Prior to building the washing station, Kageyo co-op had produced only produced semi-washed coffee. Their first year of operation was 2010, where they processed 67 tons of coffee cherries, and miraculously, in the same year, Kageyo took 2nd place in the Cup of Excellence (COE) competition in Rwanda. The following year, Kageyo won the 2011 competition, representing an incredible achievement for the co-op of farmers and the washing station. However, despite their success at COE, the 2011 season was a struggle, with lower-than-usual yields making repaying their building loan extremely difficult.

In 2013, Kageyo began working with Rwanda Trading Company in order to market their coffe…

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Rwanda

Region

Kivu

Process

washed

Variety

Red Bourbon

Altitude

1800 to 2000 m

Not stated

farm or estate, producer, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

How it sits among coffee from Rwanda

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Rwanda: 235 of 690 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

Create Coffee Roasters describe this coffee as caramel and sweet, chocolate, citrus, nutty, floral. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Rwanda; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

nutty and floral are unusual here — 11% of coffee from Rwanda are described that way, and 20% of coffee from Rwanda are described that way.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Rwanda coffees

Where each fact came from

Altitude, highest

“These smallholders grow coffee on small plots amongst the surrounding hills, where altitudes undulate between 1800 and 2000 meters.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

“These smallholders grow coffee on small plots amongst the surrounding hills, where altitudes undulate between 1800 and 2000 meters.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Variety

“Red Bourbon.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Tasting notes Imagine honey-lavender macarons!” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

“KAGEYO WASHING STATION Kageyo washing station is situated in the fertile highlands skirting Lake Kivu in the west of the country.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Washed.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Brew methods

“Perfect for filter!” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Roasted for

“Perfect for filter!” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

“Tasting notes Imagine honey-lavender macarons!” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

A further 1 fact on this page was read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for it.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.