Kenya Nyeri Karuthi AA

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Brightly accented sweetness, with brisk flavors that bring out a very nice interplay between sweetness and acidity. Clean raw sugars, black tea, lemon, orange, baking spice, mouth refreshing. City to City+.

Total Score: 91.7
Product Overview
Full Cupping Notes

You get a pretty good sense of what to expect in the cup from the dry grounds. My City roast smelled bright with lively citrus notes, delicate accents, and clean raw sugars that make a moderate impact on the fragrance. Spice notes are closer to the front in the wet aroma, along with pronounced sugary sweetness. The steam is laced with perfumed hints of tea and fruits, with an orange note adding to the complex dimension. The brew at City roast shows brightly accented sweetness, with brisk flavors that bring out the very nice interplay between sweetness and acidity. Flavors of clean raw sugars come through in the light roast levels, and play off baking spice hints that comes up as the coffee cools. The mouthfeel is refreshing in a way, like brisk black tea with a spot of lemon juice. It has a refined quality, the finish clean and aromatic, with a fragrant note of orange spice tea. City+ roasts retain some of the citrus/juicy aspects, matched by a slightly more developed roast bittering core. Flavors like cranberry and lemon bring a dynamic side to the lower-toned shades of cocoa that hold on in the aftertaste. Very nice as pour-over brew and really lives up to the AA grade!

COFFEE DETAILS
process methodWet Process Kenya Type
cultivarCaturra Types
farm gateYes
Farm Notes

Origin & Farm Notes

This coffee is from the Karuthi Factory, a washing station more or less, where coffee is processed from whole cherry to the green seeds. Karuthi is one of 19 washing stations that make up the Othaya Farmer's Coopertive Society, a coop-run organization. There are roughly 400 members of Karuthi, with coffee being grown as high as 2300 meters above sea level. The mill itself is located near the Chinga river in the Abedare mountains, not far from the Chinga mill (another mill we bought outstanding coffees from this year). Othaya started in the mid-1950s, ballooning from 250 original members to 15,000 strong today. Altitude of the washing station is just shy of 1900 meters, and you mostly see SL-28 and SL-34, along with a little Ruiru mixed in. We keep returning to the societies who regularly produce some of the best Kenya coffees to come across our cupping table, and each year the list of suppliers continues to grow.

Specs

Technical Specifications

Key specifications and operating details for this product.

region Karuthi, Nyeri
processing Wet Process Kenya Type
drying method Raised Bed Sun Dried
arrival date Jul 2025
lot size 24
bag size 60 KG
packaging GrainPro Liner
farm gate Yes
cultivar detail SL-28, SL-34, Ruiru 11
grade AA
appearance .2 d/300gr, 17-19 Screen
roast recommendations City to City+
type Farm Gate
recommended espresso No
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