Gringo Nordic Coffee Roasters 🇸🇪
Nemba Kayanza
Nemba Kayanza
250g
- Notes: 🫐 Blackberry, 🍊 Citrus, 🍏 Green apple
- Brew method: Filter
- Process: Washed
- Variety: Red Bourbon
- Origin: Burundi 🇧🇮.
- Region: Kayanza
- Producer: Smallholders of the Nemba washing station
- Altitude: 1,650m
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Nemba Kayanza
€16,70
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More about this coffee
More about this coffee
This Red Bourbon lot is grown at around 1,650m by the smallholders who deliver to the Nemba station, in Kayanza, and was harvested in September 2025. After pulping, the coffee dry-ferments, then soaks twice in mountain water before drying on raised beds.
Singular's post-it: a fresh, clean washed coffee: ripe blackberry, green apple and a long citrus finish.
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Smallholders of the Nemba washing station
Kayanza, Burundi 🇧🇮
The Nemba washing station lies in Kayanza province, in northern Burundi, close to the Rwandan border. 1,074 smallholders, with 150 coffee trees per family on average, bring their hand-picked cherries there, grown above 1,700m near the Kibira forest, on volcanic soils and under abundant rainfall. The station's agronomist trains the producers in good farming practices, and a tracking system traces each lot back to the farms.
On arrival, the cherries are floated and then hand-sorted to remove damaged or unripe fruit. Pulped within six hours, they dry-ferment for up to 12 hours and soak for 12 to 24 hours in mountain water, then the parchment goes back into the tank for another 12 to 18 hours (double soak) before two to three weeks of drying on raised beds.
Gringo Nordic Coffee Roasters
Sweden 🇸🇪
In 2004, Johan Ekfeldt co-founded Johan & Nyström, Sweden's first specialty coffee roaster. The project grew fast, perhaps too fast. Franchise shops, concept stores, endless meetings. After more than a decade at the head of a machine that had turned corporate, Johan sold his shares in 2015. He tried craft beer, ice cream, restaurants. Nothing stuck. He missed coffee, but a non-compete clause barred him from roasting in Europe for two years.
So he went to Colombia, for a friend's wedding. In the Cauca region, he came across a farm for sale. Ten hectares of tired land that he bought almost on a whim. Finca La Tierra became his playground. He cut 75% of the existing plants, replanted rare varieties (geisha, pacamara brought from El Salvador, pink bourbon) and learnt, in the field, what producing quality coffee really means. Today the farm grows around twenty varieties. The workers there gave him a nickname that stuck.
In May 2018, as soon as his clause expired, Johan launched Gringo Nordic in Gothenburg, in the Majorna district. This time, no franchise and no meeting room. Slow, small-batch roasting by air convection. A coffee bar inside the roastery, open on weekdays, with free cuppings on Saturdays. Alongside him are his wife Pernilla and John Agha, head roaster formerly of Gothenburg's legendary Mauritz Kaffe. Johan has almost 25 years of roasting behind him, and what drives him is still simple. Switching the roaster on in the morning, smelling coffee all day long, and keeping his hands in it.