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Artwork Credit: Sam Landsberg
We recommend this coffee served as an opulent espresso beverage, drip coffee or single cup pour-over.
Myin Dwin is a remote mountain community outside the town of Ywangan, Shan State, Myanmar. It means “horse well” and there is a wonderful local legend of a magical horse that sprang from the village well. The residents here take extreme pride in everything, from their attention to detail in farming and production down to keeping their streets and homes as clean as possible. And a good chunk of their proceeds go towards local education and supporting women farmers. Ywangan, a town in the southern Shan State, Myanmar has become - in just the past six years - the epicenter for specialty coffee in Burma. The families of this community do their own farming, harvesting and processing; they then export the coffee through Shwe Taung Thu, a local organization we have been working with for four years now. Warm daytime temps and cool nights help this coffee to ripen slowly and develop sweetness and a soft acidity. They intercrop their coffee with vegetable and fruit trees and prune the coffee plants to match their height. The harvested coffee is meticulously dried on raised beds for 15-28 days. This drying process - which uses almost no water - yields much brighter fruit notes. We like to call it the “wine drinker’s coffee” and is ideal for the more adventurous coffee enthusiast.
We have centered our coffee sourcing around these small communities in northern Myanmar every since we opened in 2019, and we are one of a small handful of spcecialty coffee roasters in the US to do so. This is our fifth year partnering with them! Every year we offer a few of these community lots; and we are proud to be a longtime partner with Shwe Taung Thu, Atlas Coffee Importers and all the community members that make these coffees so special.
