This is only the second time we've offered a natural Kenya, and the first in very many years. Ruera is a clean naturally processed coffee & has flavours of cola bottles lollies & dark cherry.
Roasted 30 OCT 2024
About the farmer(s)
Ruera [natural]
— Kenya
Rulers Estate is a 190-hectare coffee farm located 15 kilometers from Ruiru. The estate employs up to 1000 workers. Housing is provided for full time workers & Schooling is provided on the estate for workers children.
This lot is processed by the natural method. Ripe coffee cherries are floated & sorted to remove under/over ripe cherries, foreign material & then dried on raised beds until the moisture is reduced to 11%.
region Kiambu County
farm/farmer Kofinaf
altitude 1577 meters
crop 2024
cultivar SL26, SL34, Ruiru 11, Batian
process Natural
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. 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 at Ruera Estate.
Coffee cherry hopper at Ruera Estate.
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