GACHATHA [washed] filter roast

GACHATHA [washed] filter roast

Gachatha has flavours of sweet homemade strawberry jam & ripe golden kiwifruit.

Roasted 30 SEP 2024
$23.00
$23.00
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About the farmer(s)

Gachatha AA — Kenya

Gachatha Coffee Factory was built in 1963 & is owned by the 1542 members of the Gachatha Farmers' Cooperative Society. The coffee factory sits on a 392-acre plot of land between the villages of Muthaini, Thiriku, Gachenge & Kianjau. The average co-op member farms 1/2 an acre with around 120 coffee plants.
At harvest, coffee cherries are hand-picked & then taken to the factory the same day. They are washed & sorted to remove over/under-ripe cherries & foreign material. The cherries are then de-pulped & dry fermented overnight. The following day, the coffee beans are washed, soaked, and then spread out to dry on raised beds for 7-15 days.

Vive L'Afrique

  • region Nyeri County
  • farm/farmer Gachatha Farmers' Cooperative Society
  • altitude 1600-1900 meters
  • crop 2024
  • cultivar SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian
  • process Washed

SL28 was bred by Scott Laboratories in 1931 using various coffees from Ethiopia, Sudan & Yemen. Ruiru 11 was bred in 1985 at the Coffee Research Station in Ruiru. The aim was for a coffee plant with high resistance to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease. Batian, [named after the highest peak of Mt. Kenya] was bred at the Coffee Research Station for disease resistance & released in 2010.

Washing channels at Gachatha Coffee Factory.

Workers sorting coffee on raised beds at Gachatha Coffee Factory.