Kenya Kirinyaga Kii AA

Boasting a cupping score of 92, we are very excited about this Kenyan lot! Expect high notes of sweet and tart citrus from grapefruit and lemon to blood orange, complemented by black tea and subtle spice on top of a luscious mouthfeel. The pointed brightness from a high acid coffee like Kenya Kirinyaga is really a treat and truly unique to the country and terroir from which it hails. Kenyan coffees are best enjoyed as a filter offering (pour over, chemex, aeropress, drip) or as a vibrant espresso.

From Coffee Shrub (importer)- “This coffee comes to us from the Kii factory, located in the Kiamabara growing area. This is a cooperative coffee – part of the Rung’eto Farmers Cooperative Society – but in Kenya they’re called “factories” which is quite fitting really. I think of factories as an assembly line of sorts, where there is absolute consistency to the product output. This rings true for coffees that come from many of the Kenya factories we deal with. Year after year they have an astonishing ability to consistently produce sweet, clean, and complex coffees. Like most of the cooperatives in the area, members tend to much smaller plots of coffee trees than their estate farm competition, thus having more control over the production of ripe cherry. The average altitude is right around 1800 meters above sea level, and most of the small holder farmers contributing to this washing station grow SL-28, and SL-34 cultivars (both Bourbon hybrid from the 1930’s developed by Scot Labs), along with some Batian and Ruiru-11. This AA lot is beautifully prepped and was the star of the samples we tasted from the station.”

Brewing recommendations- Filter (pour over, chemex, aeropress, drip) or espresso.