Kenya Kirinyaga Kabare Kimandi AA GrainPro

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About this coffee

Grower

Smallholder farmers organized around the Kimandi Factory

Altitude

1700-1800 meters

Variety

SL28 and SL34

Soil

Volcanic loam

Region

Kirinyaga County, Kenya

Process

Fully washed and dried on raised beds

Harvest

November-December

Certification

Conventional

Coffee Background

Kenya Kirinyaga Kabare Kimandi AA GrainPro is sourced from family owned farms organized around the Kimandi Factory (wet mill) located in Kirinyaga County, Kenya, a growing region in the fertile foothills of Mount Kenya. The Kabare Farmers Cooperative Society manages the Kimandi Factory, which processes cherry from members who generally cultivate around 250 coffee trees on half-acre plots. With the harvest coming from small parcels, cherry classification is the most critical variable for ensuring cup quality. Small plots give these producers more control to strategically pick and deliver only the ripest cherry to the factory. Additional cherry sorting is also done at the factory before the coffee is depulped, fermented and washed. After the coffee is washed, it’s soaked in fresh water for long periods of time to solidify the hallmark Kenyan profiles.