RUERA [NATURAL] filter roast

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.