Kenya Mutheka
Kenya is back on the shelf!! Our current offering is sourced from the Mutheka Estate Farm. located in Nyeri which is east of the Aberdare Ranges, at the foothills of Mount Kenya in the Central Kenya Region. This region is known for its intense, complex, and flavor dense coffees grown on rich red volcanic soil ideal for producing some of Kenya’s best coffees. The water utilized in the coffee production is clean water sourced from the Rundu, Gikara, and Thuti rivers.
The Aberdare range contributes significant climate influence over this part of the region, keeping the vegetation cooler. Coffees from this region tend to be rich and tangy, with syrupy texture and tart stone fruit notes.
Individual farmers in these fertile foothills average 250 coffee trees each, and half-acre plots per family.
Kenya is of course known for some of the most meticulous at-scale processing that can be found anywhere in the world. Bright white parchment, nearly perfectly sorted by density and bulk conditioned at high elevations is the norm, and a matter of pride, even for generations of Kenyan processing managers who prefer drinking Kenya’s tea to its coffee. Ample water supply in the central growing regions has historically allowed factories to wash, and wash, and soak, and wash their coffees again entirely with fresh, cold river water, according to tradition.
Cherries are hand-sorted for ripeness and floated for density before being accepted and de-pulped each day. After the coffee is washed, it’s soaked in fresh water for long periods of time to stop sugar fermentation and clean the parchment. The coffee is sun dried over a period of two weeks on raised beds, which are carefully constructed to ensure proper air circulation and temperature control for optimal drying.
Roasted lighter to keep the nuanced flavor of tangy and fragrant Orange blossom, sweet Black Currant, and warm spices such as cardamom, cinnamon, and nutmeg. We recommend brewing at a slightly higher temperature; between 203-205 degrees, and at a 1/15 ratio in order to extract the full potential of the coffee. Check out our pour-over brew tutorial here.
Variety: SL26 and SL34
Processing: Washed and sundried
Altitude: 2200 masl
Coffee Grading: AA
Roast Level: Light