Kivanga AA

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean

This may be Prodigal's final new-crop Kenya of the latest harvest season, and it's really standing out! Unusual for Kenya, this is a single-estateSingle originCoffee from one traceable place — a country at the loosest, a single farm or lot at the strictest — rather than a blend of sources. AA lot instead of the usual large co-op coffees. This coffee has super ripe flavors of blackberry and cranberry, along with that signature Kenyan "big" quality. Also unique to this coffee is that it's a classic SL-28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. & SL-34SL34SL28's sibling selection, also from Kenya's Scott Labs. Slightly less celebrated but hardier, with a similar juicy, complex cup. separation. This coffee means business. Limited lot, don't wait! Managed by Morris Njagi, Kivanga Estate spans 75 hectares at 1750 meters elevation. The estate operates its own washing stationWashing 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. to process its own coffee. The cherries were picked at peak ripeness, sorted, floated, and pulped. The coffee aerobically fermented in open tanks, followed by washing and 14-21 days of drying on raised beds. Process: 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. Region: Emba, Kenya VarietyVariety (cultivar)The botanical subtype of the coffee plant — Gesha, Bourbon, SL28 — analogous to grape varieties in wine. A major driver of cup character alongside origin and process.: SL-28 & 34 Make sure to check that the roast dateRoast date / restingSpecialty bags carry the roast date, not a best-before. Coffee needs days to degas CO₂ after roasting ('resting') and is typically best within weeks, not months. you've selected is what you're looking for — if there is an "upcoming roast" for this coffee, the upcoming roast date is listed under the tasting notesTasting notesThe flavors a roaster perceives in the cup — 'jasmine, apricot, black tea'. Descriptive associations, not ingredients: nothing is added to the coffee. at the top of this product page. Please read our shipping info page!