Kenya | Chania Estate | Mixed | CM Natural | Filter | 200g

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya

Tasting notes

Character

• Funky
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Region: Thika Elevation: 1524 masl About: Chania Estate was founded in 1904 by Allen Harries, Boyce’s great-great-grandfather. Allen moved to Kenya from South Africa and travelled for two days from Nairobi to the area that would later become Thika. Today, Chania is planted with the French Mission, Ruiru 11, K7, SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness., and Batian coffee varieties. This lot was processed via the carbonic macerationAnaerobic fermentationCherries or depulped seeds ferment in sealed, oxygen-free tanks. Produces intense, unusual flavors — cinnamon, bubblegum, boozy fruit — that divide opinion. (CM) naturalNatural processThe whole cherry is dried with the fruit still on the seed. Gives heavier body and big fruit flavors — think berries and wine — sometimes with a fermenty edge. method. Whole coffee cherries are fermented in an anaerobic (without oxygen) environment, in airtight barrels. Afterwards, the cherries are spread out onto raised beds to be sun-dried. The result is a very fruity and complex coffee.