Ubuntu
Ubuntu
250g
- Notes: Lemongrass, 🍑 Apricot, 🍵 White tea
- Brew method: Espresso
- Process: Washed
- Variety: Red Bourbon
- Origin: Burundi 🇧🇮.
- Region: Kayanza
- Producer: Izuba washing station, smallholders of Kayanza
- Altitude: 1,600 - 1,650m
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Ubuntu
€14,10
€16,70
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More about this coffee
More about this coffee
This Red Bourbon lot is grown between 1,600 and 1,650m by the smallholders who deliver to the Izuba station, in Kayanza province. The cherries are pulped, fermented, washed, then dried on African beds.
Singular's post-it: a lively, luminous espresso, with bright acidity and fine sweetness, lemongrass and apricot up front and a delicate white tea finish. For those who like a vibrant cup.
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Izuba washing station, smallholders of Kayanza
Kayanza, Burundi 🇧🇮
Ubuntu, "I am because we are", is the name Bell Lane gives to its East African espresso. This harvest comes from Burundi, from the Izuba washing station ("sun" in Kirundi), located in Runinya, in the commune of Kabarore, Kayanza province, on the edge of Kibira National Park. More than a thousand smallholders from the surrounding hills deliver their Red Bourbon cherries there, grown between 1,600 and 1,650m on volcanic soils.
The cherries are pulped on the day of harvest, fermented, then washed with water from the nearby river and dried slowly on African beds. This washed process gives a clean, lively cup, which Bell Lane roasts for espresso.
Bell Lane Coffee
Ireland 🇮🇪
Bell Lane has been roasting in Mullingar, County Westmeath, since 2012. Stephen and Denise Bell built their coffee house far from the expected capitals of specialty, in a town in the Irish midlands more readily associated with wet roads and warehouses than with cupping tables. That very contrast is what makes Bell Lane endearing. The brand was born of a very concrete wish: to create an everyday coffee with the standards of a serious roastery, then push the model further, visiting farms, rethinking purchasing, and committing to progress year after year.
The documented turning point came around 2020, when Bell Lane claimed a shift towards an approach built on producers met and followed over time. Stephen Bell explained at the time that the team had visited Brazil and Honduras, two origins that already accounted for 30 percent of their green coffee that year. A figure like that says a lot. This is not postcard scenery but the real logistics of green coffee: the lots to taste, contract, receive, roast, then adjust so that the espresso stays stable and the filter keeps its clarity.
At the Clonmore Business Park roastery, Bell Lane works in small batches, with a declared preference for balance between acidity, body and aromatic clarity. Their range speaks to partner cafés as much as to home drinkers, with profiles designed to hold up on an espresso machine, a V60 or a batch brewer without losing their structure. The team regularly shares its origin trips, packaging choices, environmental projects and culture of continuous improvement, a vocabulary sometimes overused in coffee, but here backed by measurable commitments.
In 2024, Bell Lane earned B Corp certification, with a B Impact score of 87.9. The local press noted that the roastery thereby became the first business in Westmeath, and the first Irish specialty roaster, to achieve this recognition. It is not a taste in the cup, of course. But it is a reliable clue to how Stephen, Denise and their team think about coffee: as a chain of precise decisions, from buying the green to the bag you open in the morning.