KENYA - Kii AA

Green tea - Rapadura - Strong tangy acidity

200g roasted coffee beans

 

 

Farm/coop/station                           R ungeto Farmers Cooperative Society (F.C.S.)

Varietal                                              Batian, SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11

Processing                                        Washed

Certification                                      Microlot    

Altitude                                              1600-1900 m

Region                                                Kirinyaga

 

The Kii factory is operated by Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society (F.C.S.), and serves about 1,215 active farmer members. Farmers in this region began planting coffee in 1953, and the average farmer has about 400 coffee trees on an area of about 1/3 ha.

Microlots from Kenya are traceable to either the factory level or individual farm level (when possible), and are selected basis cup score. Because the majority of coffee farmers in Kenya own between 1/8–1/4 ha of land, most deliver coffee cherries to a local factory -for sorting and processing-, the deliveries are blended and processed into day lots comprising the day's deliveries.

Members deliver cherry to the factory as soon as it is picked, and it's depulped after sorting and separating. The coffee is then fermented (typically overnight) before being washed with fresh river water, and then dried in full sun.