Welcome to the July 2025 edition of For The Love of Coffee, a blog about all things coffee exclusively for the employees of Vienna Coffee Company.
Here we are in the heat of summer and ready to introduce another beautiful new coffee to the eager coffee-loving masses! This latest offering feels familiar (see my April 2024 featured Organic PNG blog), yet it is new in its regional origin and variety; a “Peaberry”coffee from Papua New Guinea called Kinmuga.
Kinmuga refers to a specific type of coffee from Papua New Guinea. These coffees are sourced from smallholder farms in the southern Wahgi Valley. This region is known for its fertile soils, enriched by the proximity to an extinct volcano and the Wara Tuman river, making it ideal for coffee cultivation.
The cherries are sold at the Kindeng wet mill, where they are pulped, fermented, and processed to parchment, then brought to the Kagamuga dry mill. Since 2018 Kindeng wet mill has had a wastewater digester, which enables environmentally friendly pulping and fermentation.
The unique combination of the local people’s pride and commitment, the natural environment, and a high-altitude tropical climate (1,600 meters above sea level) gives these coffees their specific cup characteristics.
The term “Peaberry” refers to the unique shape of this coffee. When only a single seed forms inside the coffee fruit, it produces a round -shaped seed similar to a pea shape, thus the term Peaberry was applied to this unique coffee which was initially considered a defect and sorted from the regular beans. Now it is considered a premium quality.
Here at Vienna Coffee we roast this high-end coffee to a light roast degree to retain all it’s unique character and quality. In the cup it has a juicy acidity and a medium body with tasting notes of tart cherry, mandarin orange, and pistachio nut.
Samples will soon be delivered for all Baristas to take home and enjoy with their favorite brewing method. Comments have been enabled to encourage thoughts, impressions, recommendations on brewing techniques, or any other verbose pontifications.
It’s a GREAT day for coffee!
Matt