Gachika - SL28 - Ruiru 11 - Batian [washed] filter roast

Gachika - SL28 - Ruiru 11 - Batian [washed] filter roast

A juicy Kenyan with flavours of rhubarb, pinot noir & cranberry juice.

Roasted in H-town 06 OCT 2026
$28.00
$28.00
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About the farmer(s)

Gachika - SL28 - Ruiru 11 - Batian [washed] — Kenya

Gachika was built in 1966 & is one of three coffee factories [washing stations] owned by the Kimaratia Farmers’ Cooperative Society [FCS]. The Gachika factory processes the coffee from around 2200 co-op members who grow coffee in nearby villages, each farmer averaging just a few hundred trees on 1/2 an acre of land. Coffee cherries are taken to the factory the same day they're harvested, sorted for any over or under ripe cherries, de-pulped, fermented, washed, soaked in fresh water & then sun-dried on raised beds.

  • region Kiambu County
  • farm/farmer Kamacharia Farmers’ Cooperative Society
  • altitude 1600-1800 meters
  • crop 2026
  • cultivar SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian
  • process Washed

SL28 & SL34 were 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.

Gachika Coffee Factory.