Kirinyaga, Kenya · washed
Karimikui
blackcurrant · grapefruit pith · cane sugar
£14.50
250 g · whole bean or ground · posted on the next roast day
Why we bought it
The loudest coffee on the list and the one we argue about least. Kenyan washed lots carry enough acid to survive a light roast without tasting green, so we take it to 203 °C and stop — a minute and forty-five past the crack, no more. Any longer and the blackcurrant flattens into plum, which is a perfectly nice thing to drink and not what we paid for.
The green
- Producer
- Karimikui washing station — 1,340 smallholder members
- Altitude
- 1,750–1,860 m
- Variety
- SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11
- Harvest
- Picked November to January, landed 4 March
- In store
- Four sacks of 60 kg, two and a half left
How we brew it
- Filter
- 60 g/L, 94 °C, 2:45 total, ground medium-coarse
- Espresso
- 18 g in, 44 g out, 28 s, 93 °C
