Kenya | Gichugu | Mixed | Washed | Filter | 250g

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya· Embu

Tasting notes

Character

• Clean
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Region: Embu County Elevation: 1680 masl About: The Gichugu mill was started in the 1970s and collects coffee cherry from 834 members of the Gakundu Farmer’s Cooperative Society. Situated in Embu County the mill is nestled between Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare ranges. The soil here is red volcanic and very high in phosphorus, which results in the coffee having a unique acid profile. All the coffee from Gichugu is processed via the 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. method. First, the cherries are pulped to remove the skin and fruit from the inner parchment layer. The coffee is then fermented overnight in tanks of water to break down the sticky mucilage before being cleaned, soaked, and spread out on raised drying beds to be sun-driedNatural 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.. The result is a coffee with a bright and sparkling acidityAcidityThe bright, lively, fruit-like sensation in coffee — praise, not a flaw. Citric sparkle, malic apple-crispness, tartaric wine notes; light roasts preserve more of it..