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'Remember those chocolate lime sweets that your grandma always kept in the car? This tastes like those, but better.'
This coffee completes our Kenyan offering for this year and blimey, you need to brace yourself for some serious zing. This coffee is delightfully limey, packing a serious citrus hit. It has a sticky date quality too though, which helps calm everything down and there's a lovely dark chocolate note on the finish too, which helps bring some balance.
This coffee surprised us as far as espresso goes. It shouldn't work really, but it does. At least for me. Although the acidity is pronounced, it's sharp and bright, rather than sour, - so it works quite well, even when you add milk. Most of you will probably enjoy this more as filter coffee though. Personally, I always find Kenyans a great way to start the day.
Origin: Mukurwe-Ini, Nyeri County, Kenya
Varietals: SL14 and SL28
Processing: Washed
Roast degree: 125 (read more).
Suitable for: All Brew Methods (read more)
Q Score: 86.75 (what's this?)
You can get more sensory information about the coffee by looking at the diagrams in the images above. If you need to know how these work, just click here.
Taste and flavour perception are complex and difficult to articulate. We love sharing our tasting notes with you, but please don't rely too heavily on our reports. Your experience is what matters most and it may be different. We've written about that whole issue here.
IMPORTANT: Please read our short Coffee Bean Care Guide here.
Want to know more about this coffee? Read on......
Nyeri County features cool temperatures and fertile central highlands. The region's fertile soil, seasonal rainfall, and high altitude create an ideal climate for coffee cultivation. This environment produces coffees with high acidity, full body, and ripe fruit flavors. The cool nighttime temperatures at high altitudes cause the coffee beans to develop slowly, resulting in dense, hard beans with high acidity and complexity.
The Tambaya wet mill, located in the Mukurwe-ini District of Nyeri County, processes washed coffee using water from the Gura River which flows from the Aberdare Ranges into the town. The Rumukia Farmers Co-operative Society, consisting of 212 women and 248 men, oversees 115,000 coffee trees, which are interspersed with native species to support local agroforestry.
