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

Gikirima is rich & syrupy with flavours of ripe blackberry, syrah & tinned black doris plums.

Roasted 20 OCT 2025

About the farmer(s)

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

Gikirima is one of five coffee factories owned by members of the Kibugu Farmers Cooperative Society. Around 1100 small-holder farmers deliver coffee cherries to Gikirima. Most farmers have 1-hectare plots & grow coffee alongside tea, macadamia, bananas & maize. Farmers pick ripe cherries & deliver them to the factory where they are washed & sorted for defects, de-pulped, dry-fermented overnight, washed, soaked in fresh water & then dried on raised beds for 7 to 15 days.

  • region Kirinyaga County
  • farm/farmer Kibugu Farmers Cooperative Society
  • altitude 1800 meters
  • crop 2025
  • 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.