Karinga - SL28 - SL34 [washed] filter roast

Karinga - SL28 - SL34 [washed] filter roast

Karinga is deliciously juicy, with flavours of tinned peaches, passionfruit & blood orange.

Roasted 29 DEC 2025
$26.00
$26.00
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About the farmer(s)

Karinga - SL28 - SL34 [washed] — Kenya

Karinga Factory was built in 1983 & is one of three coffee factories owned by members of Gitwe Farmers Cooperatve Society. Karinga is a processing hub for co-op members in four neighbouring villages, Kimaruri, Karingu, Gachuha & Mugalwa. Around 500 co-op members deliver coffee cherries to this washing station. The coffee here is processed using the Kenyan double washed method. Coffee cherries are hand-sorted, de-pulped, fermented overnight, washed, soaked & then dried on raised beds until the moisture has reduced to 11%.

Vive L'Afrique.

  • region Kiambu County
  • farm/farmer Gitwe Farmers Cooperative Society
  • altitude 1840 meters
  • crop 2025
  • cultivar SL28, SL34
  • process Washed

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.

Sorting coffee cherries at Karinga Coffee Factory.

Coffee drying on raised "African Beds"

Karinga Coffee Factory.