The Lady Specialty Red Honey (Myanmar)

This fruit-driven coffee is ideal as a pour over or drip brew but will also make an expressive and bright espresso beverage.

Nwa Ban Gyi is a small mountain village outside the town of Ywangan. This remote community in Shan State, Myanmar has become - in just the past 7-8 years - the epicenter for specialty coffee in Burma. This coffee is produced by “The Lady Specialty Coffee” (TLSC), a female-run venture. Su Nandar Linn, is the managing director, and she works with 60 or so local farmers (all women) from Nwa Ban Gyi whose goal is to highlight the fact that women do most of the work in the fields and at the mills (and have for generations). TLSC shares an additional 20% of their profits (after buying cherries) with the landowners as part of a give back program to encourage the farmers to re-invest back into their properties. These coffee cherries go through a carbonic maceration (anaerobic fermentation with CO2) in tanks for 48 hours – and then are pulped with some of the mucilage washed away, then sun dried on raised beds for 12-18 days – leading to some bright, sweet and complex fruit tones. Thiha Gyawalie is our local partner in Myanmar, one of the best producers in the country, whom we have been working with for the past five years.