KARATU [peaberry] filter roast

KARATU [peaberry] filter roast

This peaberry lot from Karatu is syrupy & sweet with flavours of gooseberry jam & white wine gums.

Roasted on 01 MAY 2024
    $19.00
    $19.00
    Sale Sold out
    About the farmer(s)

    KARATU — Kenya

    Karatu is one of three coffee factories [washing stations] owned by members of the Gitwe Farmers Cooperative Society [FCS]. The washing station was built in 1965 & processes the coffee from 800 co-op members.

    The coffee cherries are selectively picked & taken to the coffee factory the same day. They are hand-sorted to remove over or under-ripe cherries, de-pulped, fermented, washed, then sun-dried on raised beds.

    Vive L'Afrique

    • region Kiambu County
    • farm/farmer Gitwe Farmers Cooperative Society
    • altitude 1880m
    • crop 2023
    • cultivar SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11
    • process Washed, sun-dried

    SL28 was bred by Scott Laboratories in 1931 using various coffees from Ethiopia, Sudan & Yemen. SL34 is a mutation of French Mission Bourbon selected by Scott Laboratories in the '30s. Ruiru 11 was developed at the Coffee Research Station in 1985 to be resistant to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease.

    Ripe & unripe coffee cherries.

    Weighing coffee cherries at Karatu Washing Station.

    Sorting cherries to remove over/under ripe cherries, sticks & leaves.

    Disc pulper at Karatu Washing Sation