Swahili-speaking South African Stean Fasol has introduced beans from Rwanda and Kenya to one of the world’s oldest coffee cultures.
And Fasol, who was brought up in Kenya and speaks Swahili, is also doing trials with washing stations in East Africa to ferment coffee anaerobically, which creates a drink with a boozy flavour. He wanted to understand all processes in the coffee supply chain, so he trained as an espresso machine technician and obtained expert certification from theNow it’s all systems go at his Amsterdam roastery, where he has just taken delivery of 19 tons of East African coffee, with more consignments on the way.
Many of them don’t even have ID documents and deal solely in cash, making it impossible for them to build up a credit history, obtain a loan to upgrade their 1960s equipment or buy insurance. Vast quantities of water loaded with carbon and acid often find their way into rivers and underground water as a result of this process, which is why Fasol persuaded the Dutch government to provide grants and interest-free loans to equip farmers for the more time-consuming and labour-intensive alternative of dry processing.
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