Filter - Komothai Kiambu AA, Kenya
Regular price £12.95
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Mountain: 1,600 - 2,000 MASL
Variety: Barian, Ruiru 11, SL28, SL34
Process: Fully Washed
Producer: This lot is cultivated on several small estates in Komothai, Kiambu. The group consists of around 30 smallholder farmers who process their own harvests and whose lots are then blended together as dried parchment at Kahawa Bora Millers in Thika, Kenya. The estate owners are working together in a growers groups called “Ngewa-Komothai Farmers.”
The producers of the Ngewa-Komothai group follow the traditional Kenyan coffee processing method.
After harvest, cherries are floated to remove underripes and visually inspected to remove any overripes or damaged cherry. The coffee is pulped and then fermented for an average of 24 hours. Parchment is washed in clean water to remove any remaining mucilage and laid to dry on raised tables. Depending on weather conditions, the parchment takes around 14 days to dry.
Farmers deliver their dry parchment to the Kahawa Bora Millers dry mill in Thika, Kenya. Here, the mill will do a first quality analysis to determine quality. The dry mill process cleans and sorts the parchment, hulls and finally separates the lots into the different screen sizes.
Kenya AA is the largest bean grown in Kenya, and brews up a complex, fruity, light, and very bright cup.
With huge special thanks to our coffee Pals Katy and Bob Grainger for all of their fab tasting and testing of this coffee and helping us refine the roast to try and get a balance of the complexity of the bean and the sweetness.
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