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

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

Juicy & sweet, with flavours of rhubarb, cherry & red plum. 

Roasted 15 AUG 2025
    $24.00
    $24.00
    Sale Sold out
    About the farmer(s)

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

    Kamwangi is one of two coffee factories [washing stations] owned by the members of the New Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society.

    The Kamwangi factory was built in 1983 & processes the coffee from 1500 co-op members. The average farm size is 1/2 an acre planted with around 300 coffee trees.

    Coffee cherries are selectively hand-picked & taken to the coffee factory the same day. They are hand-sorted for any over or under-ripe cherries, de-pulped, fermented, washed & sun-dried on raised beds for 12-20 days. The beans are covered during the middle of the day to stop overheating & at night to stop moisture condensing on the beans.

    Vive L'Afrique

    • region Kirinyaga
    • farm/farmer New Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society
    • altitude 1100–1800 meters
    • crop 2025
    • cultivar SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian
    • process Washed, sun-dried

    SL28 was developed by Scott Laboratories in 1931 from various coffees from Ethiopia, Sudan & Yemen. Ruiru 11 was developed at the Coffee Research Station in 1985 to be resistant to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease. Batian was also developed at the Coffee Research Station for disease resistance & released in 2010.

    New Ngariama co-op member sorting coffee cherries.

    Weighing coffee cherries at Kamwangi Coffee Factory

    Washing coffee after fermentation at Kamwangi Coffee Factory.

    Coffee drying on raised beds at Kamwangi Coffee factory.

    African drying beds at Kainamui Coffee factory.

    Sorting dried coffee at Kamwangi Coffee Factory.