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

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

Syrupy sweet, with flavours of blueberry, red grape & lime cordial  

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

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

Kiamugumo Coffee Factory is one of three owned by New Ngariama Farmers’ Cooperative Society. Around 1500 co-op members deliver coffee to the coffee factory. At harvest, coffee cherries are hand-picked & then taken to the coffee factory the same day. They are washed & sorted to remove over/under-ripe cherries & foreign material. The cherries are then de-pulped & left to dry ferment in concrete tanks for 24 hours. Afterward, the coffee beans are washed & then soaked in fresh water for a further 12-72 hours. Finally the coffee is spread out to dry on raised beds for 14-21 days.
Vive L'Afrique.

  • region Kirinyaga County
  • farm/farmer New Ngariama Farmer’s Cooperative Society.
  • altitude 1600 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.

Hand-sorting coffee cherries at Kiamugumo Coffee Factory.

Coffee drying on raised beds at Kiamugumo Coffee Factory.