RIAKIBERU [washed] filter roast

RIAKIBERU [washed] filter roast

This delightful coffee from Kenya has a floral aroma of quince blossom & flavours of rhubarb & blood orange.

Roasted 18 NOV 2024
$23.00
$23.00
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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.

Ripe coffee cherries.

Sorting coffee cherries & Riakiberu Washing Station.