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Coffee Bio
This micro-lot comes from the Kibugu Farmers Cooperative Society and was processed at its Gikirima Factory in Gicherori, Embu County, on the southeastern slopes of Mount Kenya. Gikirima is one of five wet mills the cooperative runs, alongside Gicherori, Kathakwa, Ndunduri and Ngerwe.
Supplying farmers grow mainly SL28 and SL34 in well-drained volcanic soils, with around 2,000 mm of rain a year falling in two seasons. The main crop runs from October to December, with a smaller fly crop from April to July.
At the factory, cherries are floated and hand-sorted, pulped and fermented overnight, then washed and density-sorted in channels before sun-drying on raised beds to 10–12% moisture. Wastewater is directed to soak pits.
A fruit-forward Kenyan with fresh stone fruit, crisp green apple and honey sweetness.