Kenya Nyeri Maganjo Peaberry

The Maganjo coffee "factory" is a cooperartive run wet mill where farmers can band together for the shared benefit of a shared, state of the art processing facility, and direct access to the market. The Maganjo wet mill is near Mukurwe-ini town in Nyeri, Kenya. It's part of the Rumukia FCS ("Farmers Cooperative Society"), and though we've offered coffee from a few others under the Rumukia umbrella, we've only had the pleasure of tasting Maganjo's coffee twice, purchasing both times. This lot is a very small peaberry outturn (5 bags). "Outturn" is the name for the grade separations made from a single lot of coffee. After a coffee is processed and dried, it is moved to the dry mill where it is separated by bean size by running through large vibrating tables and sieve screens. The most common grades you will see on our site are AA (17 to 19 1/64 inch), AB (15 to 17 1/64 inch) and Peaberry. Peaberries occur naturally, but in small amount (around 3% of the harvest). It's when one of two coffee seeds fails to germinate, leaving the other to grow in the rounded shape of the cherry. This peaberry cupped incredible on arrival, and is spice-forward, honey sweet, and brimming with fruit when roasted light.