We’ve been highly anticipating the new single origin from London roasters Elsewhere. This time round they’ve picked up a beautifully clean natural coffee from Myanmar, bright and sweet with soft notes of cantaloupe melon and vanilla.

These coffee beans come from the smallholder farmers in A Lel Chaung village who are members of Shwe Taung Thu farmers group. This farmer owned programme is made of over 3000 Danu and Pa-O growers in villages across Ywangan Township in Central Myanmar. With the support of Shwe Taung Thu, these farmers have control over the production and pricing of the coffee from their villages, where they operate community processing stations with a focus on dry naturals.

This process is ideal for the climate in Myanmar, where the harvest season’s dry heat provides perfect drying conditions, creating coffees that are sweet but light in flavour.