Uganda Bududa Bukalasi Supernatural (30kg)
Bag Weight | 30 KG BAG |
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Harvest Season | 2024/25 |
Status | ETA May 2025 |
Lot Number | P8002793-12 |
About This Coffee


The Region
Mt Elgon is an extinct volcano on the border with Kenya and is thought to be the oldest volcano on the African continent. The massive base and gentle slopes support thousands of smallholder farmers, with arabica coffee is cultivated across a broad band around the mountain between 1,200 and 2,200masl. Volcanic soils, plentiful rain, high altitude and abundant sunshine are all contributing factors to the excellent terroir of the Mt Elgon region.
The region is steeped in coffee tradition. In fact, Zukuka Bora’s Tangwen coffee comes from the very micro-region where Arabica coffee was first planted in around 1920, after being brought from farms in neighbouring Kenya. Despite the rich history, the story of specialty coffee is more mixed.
After independence in 1962, Uganda had a fine reputation for coffee, with strong cooperatives working across the mountain - most famously the Bugisu Cooperative Union. Quality cultivation and harvesting practices were employed and the industry boomed. However, over time, quality started to become compromised due to a variety of reasons and buyers started to become (rightly) suspicious of the quality coming out of the country. As a result, prices plummeted, and for many farmers growing coffee was simply not economically viable. There was very little differential local market for quality and so the quality-driven processes were largely abandoned.
In recent years however, as the specialty industry has grown producers have started to realise that there is demand and economic incentive for high quality coffee.


The Process
Supernatural processing is an evolving technique which until now we have only sourced from Ethiopia. This season the Zukuka Bora team decided to trial it and our team is very excited with the results!
For this process, ripe coffee cherries are wrapped in plastic sheeting with a little water and then left in the sun on raised racks for 72 hours (3 days) to ferment. After this the cherries are risned clean and then dried on raised beds in the style of a standard natural.
After drying the coffee is rested for around 1 month before moving to a dry mill for secondary processing (hulling, sorting, grading, handpicking and bagging in Grainpro/Ecotact bags for export.
- Subregion Bukalasi village, Bududa, Mount Elgon
- Producer Type Small Holder Farmers
- Wet Mill Muyanda Micro-station
- Processing Natural/Dry Processed
- Bag Types Grain Pro / Ecotact
- Plant Species Arabica
- Variety SL28, SL34
- Min Growing Altitude 1850m
- Max Growing Altitude 2050m
- Screen Size 15 Up
- On Sale No
- Top Lot No
- Price Per Kg £14.50
- Status Afloat
- Coffee Grade UGA CA NAT SPL SD
- CTRM Contract Number P8002793-12
- Origin Uganda
- Warehouse Vollers Group Uk