Temple Coffee

Ten years ago, what remained of the coffee industry in Rwanda produced crappy stuff, which was also difficult to export to the U.S. But over the last few years, small farmers and coops like the Musasa Cooperative (80 percent of whom are women!) have rejuvenated Rwandan coffee with high quality goods, like this crazy delicious washed Bourbon varietal grown at 1160 meters in Rushashi and roasted by Sacramento’s Temple Coffee: It’s super clean, dropping notes of currant and cherry in a body so smooth it’s creamy. It finishes sweet, then lounges around in your mouth like it’s summer.

We feature truly small-batch, seasonal coffees. So there might not be any left. But that's a good thing! Only big corporate factories have the same stuff all year round.