Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA

This AA separation from Gathaithi boasts dark fruits and bracing citrus notes, and the smells in the ground coffee span a wide range of clean smelling citrus to berry juice. Sweet fruits are emitted from the wet grounds, hinting at citrus and berry reductions that meld with an array of unrefined sugar notes. What a great pour over brew Gathaithi AA makes, with flavors of fruit juices, mouth-cleansing acidic impression, and a clean, transparent finish. Our City roast was undoubtedly the brightest brew, giving the perception of citric tartness, a mouthfeel that helps organize the wide array of fruited notes like plump grape, cran-raspberry juice, black currant, and Valencia orange to name a few. Light roasts are juicy and bright, with pervasive sweetness that brings to mind a range of unrefined sugars, and simple syrups. The finish was very sweet in both our light and medium roast levels (we roasted to around Full City, 34 degrees of development post first crack), with complex spices lingering in the aroma and aftertaste, along with a hint of green melon, and pleasant tea-tannic bittering on the tongue. Fruit flavors and acidity are altered by darker roast development, and we found Full City roasts had more of a berry-like brightness, with darker fruits like grape and plum more prevalent, and a bit of cocoa roast tone in the aftertaste. This one was a fast favorite from our recent arrivals, with so much to reveal at different levels of roast.