KENYA Kii AB

The Flavour Profile

This Light Medium roast coffee offers a well-balanced, medium body, with hints of rhubarb, grapefruit and blackberry. Perfect for filter or cafetiere extractions,

The Little Details 

This coffee comes from Kii Factory Rung'eto Farmers Cooperative society in Kirinyaga East District, Gichugu Division region in Kenya. It's grown 1310 to 1900 meters above sea level and are fully washed and dried on raised beds. It's drawn from a mix of SL 28, SL 34 varietal coffee beans. 

About the Process

Farmers selectively handpick the ripes cherries, which are then delivered to the wet mill on the same day. All farms delivering to the wet mill are located within a 3 mile radius and deliver to the mill via a variety of methods- including motorbike, weelbarrow and bicyle. Cherries are hand sorted prior to pulping, with damaged and under ripe cherries being separated out from the red, ripe lots, and are further defined into lots according to quality. The cherries are then pulped to remove the external fruit and then fermented in water for 16 - 24 hours. After fermentation, the coffee is wash in clean, fresh water from the local Kii River to remove all traces of mucilage before being delivered through sorting channels to dry on raised beds.

While is drying, parchment coffee is sorted again to remove any discoloured or damaged beans. When the optimal humidity is reached, the parchment coffee is then delivered to the dry mill where is given an 'outrun' number, defining it by the week an that season, the dry mill, and the delivery number for that wek.