Kenya Kirinyaga Kii Peaberry
Excellent fruited peaberry, with juicy accents, and brilliant citrus flavors at light roast levels. Notes of tangerine, stone fruit tea, sweet melon, golden raisin, and tart acidity that well integrated in the profile. City to Full City.
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Full Cupping Notes
This lot from Kii is juicy and brilliant at lighter roast levels, with dark fruit and citrus notes throughout. At City to City+ the dry grounds smelled of orange hard candies, lemon, honey and plump grape. The wet aroma had a syrupy sweetness to it with less fruit up front, notes of black currant and peach tea, with a backdrop of caramelized sugars. The cup is quite juicy at City and City+ in both flavor and mouthfeel. The brew pushes ripe citrus and fruit flavors to the front of the cup, with an acidic impression that's well integrated in profile. The cup brought to mind notes of red grape, with hints of stone fruit tea, sweet melon, and orange. You get a sense of this coffee's acidity as it cools down a bit, at first showing tartaric aspects, but then more like sweet-tart citrus, hinting at tangerine. The finish is mildly fruited too, with notes of golden raisin and orange, along with spiced accents that brought out some mulled juice aspects.
- Process Method Wet Process Kenya Type
- Cultivar Bourbon Types
- Farm Gate Yes
This coffee comes to us from the Kii factory, located in the Kiamabara growing area. This is a cooperative coffee - part of the Rung'eto Farmers Cooperative Society - but in Kenya they're called "factories" which is quite fitting really. I think of factories as an assembly line of sorts, where there is absolute consistency to the product output. This rings true for coffees that come from many of the Kenya factories we deal with. Year after year they have an astonishing ability to consistently produce sweet, clean, and complex coffees. Like most of the cooperatives in the area, members tend to much smaller plots of coffee trees than their estate farm competition, thus having more control over the production of ripe cherry. The average altitude is right around 1900 masl and most of the small holder farmers contributing to this washing station grow SL-28 cultivar (Bourbon hybrid from the 1930's developed by Scot Labs). This Peaberry lot is beautifully prepped, and we thought it offered an interesting contrast to the AA and AB lots we sampled from this same area.
| Region | Kirinyaga County |
|---|---|
| Processing | Wet Process Kenya Type |
| Drying Method | Raised Bed Sun-Dried |
| Arrival date | May 2026 |
| Lot size | 5 |
| Bag size | 60 KG |
| Packaging | GrainPro Liner |
| Farm Gate | Yes |
| Cultivar Detail | SL-28, SL-34, Ruiru 11 |
| Grade | Peaberry |
| Appearance | .2 d/300gr, 15 Peaberry Screen |
| Roast Recommendations | City to Full City |
| Type | Farm Gate |
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