Kenya: Kiriga, AB

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya· Kiambu

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  25
• Clean
  25
• Comforting
  20
• Funky
  20

Kenya: Kiriga, SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. & SL34SL34SL28's sibling selection, also from Kenya's Scott Labs. Slightly less celebrated but hardier, with a similar juicy, complex cup. AB, WashedWashed processThe fruit is removed from the seed before drying, usually with fermentation and a water rinse. Tends to give clean, transparent cups where origin character shows clearly. Think cherry and lime sweets in a mug, with bags of that candy sweetness backing up the fruit. A delicate blackcurrant aftertaste rounds out a very quaffable cup. We have been buying Kenyan coffee from Kiriga for over a decade – it is easily one of our favourite producer relationships and the coffees from this farm get Team Ozone excited every time they come back into season. We genuinely believe that they produce some of the best Kenyan coffee money can buy. This year we will have three lots of single originSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. Washed Kenyan coffee on sale from the Kiriga Estate: an AA, an AB, and a PB. Kiriga Estate: The Perfect Place To Grow Coffee Kiriga is located in the Central Province of Kenya, towards the south-west corner of the country. It is roughly 5km from the nearby industrial hub of Thika town, and 50km north-east of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. The estate sits on the very edge of Muranga county, separated from the bordering Kiambu county by the Chania river, which 4km downstream forms the famous Chania and Thika Fourteen Falls, a popular tourist destination named for the 14 distinct waterfalls cascading from this broad section of the river. The river is a vital water source for the estate, both for crop irrigation and the wet millWashing stationA central mill where many smallholder farmers deliver cherry for processing. In Ethiopia, Kenya, and Rwanda the station name (e.g. Idido) often identifies the coffee.. The 130-acre Kiriga estate sits at 1,550 to 1,650 metres above sea level and has roughly 54 hectares currently producing coffee. What Is AB Grade Coffee? The vast majority of this land is planted with the highly prized SL28 varietal, alongside 2 hectares of Ruiru 11, 1 field of Batian, and a sprinkling of K7. All varieties of coffee vary in size from bean to bean, so buyers have historically categorised lots by bean size, considering the very biggest beans the highest quality. This sizing is done by passing the coffee through sorting screens (picture layers of flat colanders with decreasing holes on each level) that catch the corresponding circumference coffee as they are shaken through. In most countries