Mubuku

Mubuku Washing Station sits along the Mubuku River in Uganda’s Kasese District, near the Rwenzori Mountains and Queen Elizabeth National Park. More than 4,300 farmers supply cherries to the station, mainly growing SL14 alongside crops such as bananas, vanilla and beans.

For this anaerobic natural lot, ripe cherries are floated and hand-sorted before being sealed in drums for 40 hours of anaerobic fermentation. They are then spread on raised drying beds, where seasonal workers regularly turn, rake and sort the cherries by hand.

Drying takes around 18–24 days, depending on conditions. The station’s quality-control facilities and carefully managed processing allow Mubuku to experiment with fermentation while maintaining consistency and bringing out the coffee’s aromatic potential.