Riakiberu has a floral quince blossom aroma & flavours of rhubarb & blood orange.
Roasted 30 SEP 2024
About the farmer(s)
Riakiberu AA
— Kenya
Riakiberu Coffee Factory is one of four owned by Kamacharia Farmers’ Cooperative Society. Around 700 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 for 24 hours. Afterward, the coffee beans are washed & then soaked in fresh water for a further 24 hours. Finally the coffee is spread out to dry on raised beds for 14-21 days.
Vive L'Afrique.
region Murang’a
farm/farmer Kamacharia Farmers’ Cooperative Society
altitude 1750 meters
crop 2024
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.