Yara Peaberry - SL28 - SL34 - Ruiru 11 [washed] filter roast

Yara Peaberry - SL28 - SL34 - Ruiru 11 [washed] filter roast

Yara has some nice juicy, almost sparkling acidity, brown sugar sweetness & flavours of boysenberry & cranberry juice. It's one of our top picks from the '25 Kenyan crop.

Roasted 26 AUG 2025
$26.00
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About the farmer(s)

Yara Peaberry - SL28 - SL34 - Ruiiru 11 [washed] — Kenya

Yara Estate is owned by the 1192 member Gatatha Farmers Cooperative Society. The estate was established by a British settler in 1902 as a dairy farm, coffee was planted later in 1930 when a new owner took over. Gatatha FCS was formed by the resident farm workers in 1972 which then purchased the estate. Yara Estate is located on the southern slopes of the Aberdare Range & Mt. Kenya.. The coffee was processed by the washed method. Once harvested, coffee cherries are sorted to remove under/over-ripe cherries, defects & foreign material. They are then de-pulped, dry-fermented, washed, soaked in fresh water & then sun-dried on raised beds. This is a peaberry lot, each cherry having one round bean instead of the more common 2 flat beans.

  • region Kiambu County
  • farm/farmer Yara Estate/ Gatatha FCS
  • altitude 1700 Meters
  • crop 2025
  • cultivar SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11
  • process Washed

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.

Coffee drying on raised beds at Yara Estate.