THUNGURI [washed] filter roast

THUNGURI [washed] filter roast

Thunguri has flavours of cranberry, red delicious apple & lemon curd.

Roasted 16 SEP 2024
    $20.00
    $20.00
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    About the farmer(s)

    Thunguri AB — Kenya

    Thunguri Coffee Factory is one of eight owned by members of Kibirigwi Coffee Growers Cooperative Society. Around 1100 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 Nyeri County
    • farm/farmer Kibirigwi Farmers' Cooperative Society
    • altitude 1600 meters
    • crop 2024
    • cultivar SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian, K7
    • 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. K7 was selected by a farmer R. H. Walker from French Mission Bourbon on his farm in 1936 after showing signs of resistance to coffee berry disease & coffee leaf rust [K7 is no longer disease resistant].

    Coffee drying on raised beds.

    Coffee cherries in a hopper at Thunguri Coffee Factory.