This one is a beautiful, classic washed Kenyan coffee with notes of Apricot, Orangina and Black Tea. It's a great choice for anyone who loves juicy, citric East African coffees. Even in autumn this coffee reminds us of bright, summer days.
We sourced this coffee through our friends at Falcon. This lot was grown by a group of smallholder farmers who are all members of the Mutheka Farmers Cooperative Society (FCS) and deliver their coffee to Kiandu Coffee Factory. The facility lies in Kenya's renowned Nyeri County, near the town of Tetu.
Mutheka FCS is a very new organisation that was created in 2004 after the Giant Tetu Coffee Growers Co-Operative Society split. The FCS is located in Nyeri County, east of the Aberdare Ranges and west of Mt. Kenya, and manages seven factories with a total membership of approximately 6,000 small-scale coffee growers. Kiandu Factory has almost 1,900 registered members, making it one of Mutheka's largest. Only a small percentage of Kenyan coffee factories actively deliver coffee in any given year.
To create this lot, handpicked coffee cherries were sent to the mill the same day and carefully sorted. Employees from the factory carefully supervised the procedure to prevent any underripe or damaged cherries from being accepted. Any unwanted coffee got sent home to be dried and used as low-quality 'Mbuni' natural-process coffee with a low price at the end of the season. Farmer members are rewarded for picking and delivering only the ripest cherries.
Elevation: 1600-1700 Meters Above Sea Level
Varietal: SL28, SL34
Cup score: 87.5
Price paid per kg: £10.32
Process: Washed
