KIAMABARA [washed] filter roast

KIAMABARA [washed] filter roast

This washed Kenyan has flavours of hibiscus tea & apricot jam. 

Roasted 27 DEC 2024
$23.00
$23.00
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About the farmer(s)

Kiamabara AA — Kenya

Kiamabara is one of two coffee factories owned by members of the Mugaga Farmers' Cooperative Society. The factory was built in the early 1980s & processes the coffee of 910 co-op members. The average co-op member farms 1/2 an acre with around 200 coffee plants.
At harvest, coffee cherries are hand-picked & then taken to the factory the same day. They are washed & sorted to remove over/under-ripe cherries & foreign material. The cherries are then de-pulped & dry fermented overnight. The following day, the coffee beans are washed, soaked, and then spread out to dry on raised beds for 7-15 days.

Vive L'Afrique

  • region Nyeri County
  • farm/farmer Mugaga Farmers' Cooperative Society
  • altitude 1900 meters
  • crop 2024
  • cultivar SL26, SL34, Ruiru 11, K7
  • 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 30's. Ruiru 11 was developed at the Coffee Research Station in 1985 to be resistant to coffee leaf rust & coffee berry disease. K7 was selected by a farmer R. H. Walker from French Mission Bourbon on his farm in 1936 after showing signs of resistance to coffee berry disease & coffee leaf rust [K7 is no longer disease resistant].

Coffee at Kiamabara Coffee Factory.

Raised coffee drying beds at Kiamabara Coffee Factory.