Kenya AB Kichawir (2023)
About This Coffee
The Region
Kericho county is in Kenya’s Great Rift Valley region of south-west Kenya. While the county produces an abundance of speciality coffee, it is famously home to multiple large tea estates and is world renowned for its tea production. Like most of Kenya's coffee-growing regions, Kericho county boasts high altitudes and highly fertile volcanic soils which typically produce medium-high acidity in the cup with notes of citrus and rich chocolate.
The Process
The coffee is wet processed, where the fully ripe cherries are:
• Pulped
• Fermented for 12 - 48 hours (depending on climatic conditions)
• Washed
• Dried slowly over 2 - 3 weeks on raised African beds until the moisture content is reduced to 10-12%.
The coffee is then rested in parchment for 3 weeks before being hulled, cleaned and graded by bean size. Finally, the coffee is carefully handpicked before being bagged in GrainPro for export from Mombasa.
- Subregion Kericho, Rift Valley
- Producer Type Washing Station
- Processing Washed
- Bag Types Grain Pro / Ecotact
- Plant Species Arabica
- Variety Batian, Ruiru 11, SL28, SL34
- Min Growing Altitude 1500m
- Max Growing Altitude 1600m
- Screen Size 16 Up
- Co-Op Kichawir Farmers' Co-operative Society
- On Sale No
- Top Lot No
- Price Per Kg £7.00
- Status Spot
- Coffee Grade KEN CA WA AB TOP
- CTRM Contract Number P8002050-14
- Origin Kenya
- Warehouse Vollers Group Uk