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🇧🇮Burundi · Kayanza

2025 Ninga; Giku Hill - Burundi

Roasted by Sey CoffeeRoaster's website

TRADITIONAL PROCESS

TagsBurundi Kayanza Washed Black Tea Arabica Single origin Ninga Washing Station Long Miles Coffee Project Sey Coffee Independent

🇧🇮BurundiWashedField Blend

Brand

SEY Coffee

Roaster website

Visit website

Country

🇧🇮Burundi

Region

Kayanza

Town

Giku Hill

Farm / Station

Ninga Washing Station

Farmer / Producer

Long Miles Coffee Project

Species

Arabica

Type

Single origin

Grade

Not specified

Variety

Field Blend

Process

Roast

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Tasting notes

stewed fruit, black tea, warm baking spices

Fermentation

Dry-fermented for 12 hours, then submerged in water for 24 hours

Drying

Traditional African raised beds for 16–20 days to 10.5% moisture

Product page

Roaster's site

Date reviewed

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Why some details are blank

gradeThe exact SEY archive does not publish a formal green-coffee grade.
blend percentagesSEY states that the relative percentages of Red Bourbon and Mibirizi are unknown and treats SL34 only as a possibility.
bag size gNo independent exact-release source corroborated a package weight.
roast levelThe exact archive does not state a conventional roast-level category.
roast dateNo bag-specific roast date was published for the archived release.
public sentiment ratingThe three exact independent pages contain catalog metadata rather than qualifying hands-on scores.

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The transparency chain

FROM THE BAG
BACK TO THE LAND.

Every link we could verify, traced in one place. Follow the chain as far as it goes — when the industry doesn't disclose a link, we say so instead of guessing.

01
The name on the bag
2025 Ninga; Giku Hill - Burundi
Named on the bag
02
The brand
SEY Coffee
Documented
03
The roaster
Sey Coffee
Documented
04
The variety
Field Blend
Documented
05
The farm
Ninga Washing Station
Documented
06
The farmer
Long Miles Coffee Project
Documented
07
The region
Kayanza
Documented
08
The country
🇧🇮Burundi
Documented

From the producer

Long Miles Coffee Project works with coffee growers in Burundi; SEY identifies it as the sourcing and production partner for this Giku Hill release.

From the roaster

Sey Coffee is a Brooklyn-based micro-roastery focused on building long-term supply chain relationships to source and roast dynamic, complex coffees.

Why this coffee is noteworthy

Giku Hill is a remote producing area near the Kibira Forest. SEY documents this lot as a Field Blend: Red Bourbon and Mibirizi are known to be present locally, while SL34 is only a possibility and relative percentages are unknown.

The honest process breakdown

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLY
DO TO THIS COFFEE?

Verified the exact release

Matched the coffee to SEY’s archived 2025 Ninga; Giku Hill page and June 2024 harvest.

Preserved exact origin and process

Retained Kayanza, 1,700 m, Field Blend, double fermentation, density grading, and the documented drying protocol.

Recovered historical retail price

Added $24.25 only after exact-release corroboration by coffeeDB and Moonoh.

Kept uncertainty explicit

Did not convert possible SL34 presence, unknown blend percentages, catalog metadata, or unscored pages into confirmed genetics or public sentiment.

What was added?

Corroborated historical $24.25 retail pricing and three independent exact-release evidence links.

What wasn't added?

No package weight, conventional roast level, roast date, formal grade, blend percentages, owner score, or public sentiment rating was inferred.

Why it matters

The profile now includes a defensible retail price while keeping the 2025 Giku Hill release separate from later Ninga harvests and other Giku coffees.

What you might taste

SEY reports stewed fruit, black tea, and warm baking spices.

Sources for these process claims

· https://www.seycoffee.com/collections/archived-coffees/products/2025-ninga-giku-hill-burundi
· https://www.coffeedb.pro/coffees/1c133b0a-b374-4576-a96a-412bc529ce8f
· https://every.coffee/roaster/sey/2025-ninga-giku-hill-burundi
· https://moon-oh.com/local-product/sey-coffee/2025-ninga-giku-hill-burundi

Coffee profile

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

This coffee is in our database because we can reliably document it — but we haven't tasted and scored it yet, and we never publish a score we haven't earned.

Outside reviews and internet discussion — is kept clearly separate from our own review. When we taste it, our full review appears here.

The internet pulse

What the internet is saying about this coffee

Research complete — no qualifying reviews yet

Our research pipeline scanned public reviews, videos, forums and discussions for this coffee (last pass 2026-10-26) and found no independent review of this exact release that meets our verification standards. When qualifying sources appear, they'll be published here.

What we found

Non-exact, seller, directory, generic-roaster, different-release, duplicate, and older-release sources were excluded. No qualifying independent exact-release review remains.

Until then, meet the people behind it:

Meet the farm: Ninga Washing Station →Meet the farmer: Long Miles Coffee Project →

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FROM THE BAGBACK TO THE LAND.

WHAT DID THEY ACTUALLYDO TO THIS COFFEE?

In the database. Not tasted. Not scored.

What the internet is saying about this coffee

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