Kenya Kiambu Spike AA

This year's offers from Spike farm cupped outstanding. We were won over by the bright, fruited flavors, and found ourselves buying multiple lots of their AA, AB, and Peaberry out-turns. This AA separation builds a vibrant structure of citrus tones, tangy fruits, with a sweetly-spiced aroma that lingers in the aftertaste. The ground coffee has a scent of honey and caramel, with sweet smelling fruits, like ripe stone fruit, and pear. The wet aroma has a slight floral dimension, with potent cane sugar notes accented by fruity hints, orange essence, and green melon. City roasts are high toned right from the start, with grounding sweetness of brown sugar, and maple initially, that unfolds to more complex fruit and spices as the coffee cools. There's a juicy-bright note of muscat grape, both in terms of the tart grape skins, and aromatic fruit flavor. Tangy dried fruits like tamarind, and cranberry feed into the bright acidity, and connect to a long spiced finish of clove, and Five Spice.