Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA
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Total Score: 92.5
Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA
Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA
Bright acidity helps organize the complex top end, with notes of orange, cran-raspberry juice, black currant, aromatic spices, red plum, and transparent finish. A fast favorite for us, with so much to reveal at different levels of roast. City to Full City.Full Cupping Notes
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.
Product Overview
Product Overview
Full Cupping Notes
COFFEE DETAILS
| process method | Wet Process Kenya Type |
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| cultivar | Bourbon Types |
| farm gate | Yes |
Farm Notes
Farm Notes
Origin & Farm Notes
Gathaithi is the name of the washing station where this coffee was processed, as well as the local Farmers Cooperative Society ("FCS"). Wet mills are referred to as "factories" in Kenya, each serving a particular micro-region, and often associated with a few other cooperatives that fall under a conglomerate umbrella that is the "Farmers Cooperative Society". Gathaithi station is where the local members deliver their whole coffee cherry for processing: first pulping in a 3-disc "Kenya" style pulping machine, fermenting overnight, then washing away the cherry skins in clean water, and then soaking once more in fresh water before the parchment coffee is laid out to dry on raised drying beds. There are currently 1250 coop members, and the average altitude is 1700 meters above sea level, though farms fall on both side of that number. Grade doesn't necessarily correlate to actual cup quality (until you get into C, TT, and below), but we did find this particular AA size separation to stand out from the rest. AA are also the largest screen size at 17 to 19 1/64ths of an inch (AB are slightly smaller, at 15 to 17 1/64th's of an inch).
Specs
Specs
Technical Specifications
Key specifications and operating details for this product.
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| farm gate | Yes |
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| type | Farm Gate |
| recommended espresso | No |
Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA
Kenya Nyeri Gathaithi AA
Bright acidity helps organize the complex top end, with notes of orange, cran-raspberry juice, black currant, aromatic spices, red plum, and transparent finish. A fast favorite for us, with so much to reveal at different levels of roast. City to Full City.
Full Cupping Notes
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.