Interstellar Stella — Burundi Filter Coffee

Tasting Notes: Cocoa, Kombucha, Raspberry
Origin: Burundi
Producer: 1,739 Smallholder Farmers
Washing Station: Kibingo
Region: Kayanza
Variety: Red Bourbon
Process: Intenso Yeast-Inoculated, Fully Washed
Altitude: Farms at 1,700–1,900 MASL
Roast: Filter Coffee
Bag Sizes: 250g and 1kg

👽 Stella Has Left the Planet

The signal appeared just after midnight.

A low hum. A flash of red light. A small silver ship hovering silently above the hills of Kayanza.

The door opened.

Stella stepped out.

Interstellar Stella is a single-origin Burundi filter coffee produced by 1,739 smallholder farmers working with Kibingo washing station.

This experimental speciality coffee is made from Red Bourbon and processed using an Intenso yeast-inoculated, fully washed method.

Expect a strange transmission of Cocoa, Kombucha and Raspberry — deep chocolate sweetness, sparkling fermentation and a bright beam of red-fruit flavour.

Clean enough for Earth.
Wild enough for somewhere else entirely.

If you’re searching for distinctive speciality coffee beans in Ireland, Stella is ready to take your daily filter coffee somewhere considerably less ordinary.

🛸 Burundi Coffee from Kibingo Washing Station

Stella’s latest cargo comes from Kibingo washing station in Kayanza, northern Burundi.

Kibingo works with 1,739 registered smallholder coffee farmers spread across 18 surrounding hills. Most families cultivate only a few hundred coffee trees, often growing coffee alongside food crops around their homes.

During harvest, ripe Red Bourbon cherries arrive from farms located approximately 1,700 to 1,900 metres above sea level. These high-altitude growing conditions contribute to the sweetness, acidity and complexity for which Burundi speciality coffee is known.

The producers are organised into groups of 30, each represented by a farm leader who helps coordinate communication between farmers and the washing station.

Kibingo also supports its coffee-growing community through compost made from coffee pulp, subsidised seedlings and projects designed to improve coffee quality, farm productivity and local livelihoods.

Thousands of tiny harvests.
Eighteen hills.
One washing station.
A single transmission heading for your cup.

🧬 Intenso Yeast-Inoculated, Fully Washed Process

This is where Stella starts pressing buttons she probably shouldn’t.

Only ripe coffee cherries are selected before being floated and carefully sorted at Kibingo washing station.

After the cherries are pulped, the coffee is fermented using a specially selected Intenso yeast culture. This creates a controlled fermentation environment that can increase fruit intensity, brightness and complexity in the finished coffee.

The coffee is then fully washed to remove the remaining fruit material before being carefully dried.

Think of the yeast as a microscopic flavour-navigation system, steering this Burundi coffee beyond a conventional washed profile and further into raspberry, kombucha and cocoa territory.

The flavours are created during coffee fermentation at origin. Nothing is artificially added to the roasted beans.

No artificial flavouring.
No ingredients added after roasting.
Just Red Bourbon coffee, controlled fermentation and some very small intergalactic organisms doing unusual things.

The result is clean but curious: juicy raspberry acidity, kombucha-like sparkle and a smooth cocoa finish bringing everything safely back to Earth.

☕ How to Brew Interstellar Stella

Interstellar Stella is roasted specifically for filter coffee brewing.

We recommend brewing it with a:

• V60

• Kalita Wave

• Chemex

• AeroPress

• Filter coffee machine

Give the coffee a generous bloom and pour slowly.

Drink it hot for deeper cocoa sweetness, then allow it to cool. As the temperature drops, the raspberry and kombucha notes become brighter and more expressive.

If the cup starts glowing, remain calm.

🌍 Speciality Coffee Roasted in Ireland

Interstellar Stella is roasted fresh by Groundstate Coffee Roasters, an independent Irish speciality coffee roastery.

We carefully roast this Burundi coffee for filter brewing, developing its natural sweetness and clarity while preserving the unusual raspberry, cocoa and kombucha character created at Kibingo.

Our coffee is available to order online in either 250g or 1kg bags, as whole beans or ground to suit your preferred brewing method.

For every sack of coffee we roast, we support the planting of two native Irish trees through Hometree. We also donate 1% of our profits to Clean Coasts and continue working towards more responsible, lower-waste coffee packaging.

Better coffee shouldn’t cost the Earth.

Stella has seen it from space. She agrees.

🚀 Why You’ll Love It

• Single-origin Burundi speciality coffee

• Produced by 1,739 smallholder coffee farmers

• Red Bourbon from Kibingo washing station in Kayanza

• Intenso yeast-inoculated and fully washed

• Tasting notes of Cocoa, Kombucha and Raspberry

• Clean, sparkling, chocolatey and fruit-forward

• Roasted specifically for filter coffee

• Available in 250g and 1kg bags

• Freshly roasted in Ireland

• Free shipping in Ireland on orders over €35

The signal is getting stronger.
The spaceship door is open.
Stella saved you a seat.