Kenya Kariti Kianjege AA Coffee Pods

Origin

• 🇰🇪 Kenya· Nyeri

Tasting notes

Character

• Bright
  80
• Clean
  45

Freshly roasted, and created in house. A medium roast coffee with a rose floral note and flavours of honeydew melon and black cherry . Lovely sweetness, and a silky bodyBodyThe weight and texture of coffee in the mouth, from tea-like and delicate to syrupy and heavy. Driven by process, roast, variety, and brew method.. These are not usual pods, they aren’t dark and full bodied, they are very much a light roastLight roastRoasted just past first crack to preserve origin character: higher acidity, florals, and fruit, lighter body. The signature of Nordic-style roasting. style pod. If you are looking for a fuller bodied coffee please try our Organic and Fairtrade Mandheling Pods , Dark Roast Colombian Pods or our Basic Espresso Pods . Nespresso compatible, and fully recyclable, uncoated aluminium capsules. Simply put in with your home recycling. ---- The farm There’s a reason we’ve been roasting a Kenyan AA of some 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. for the last thirty years or so. A great benchmark of quality for arabica, especially those grown around Mount Kenya itself, you can always expect upfront sweetness and 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., with a fruity body - this lot is no exception, with big notes of cranberry and orange sweetness, and a perfumed finish. Grown in the rich red volcanic soils of Kirinyaga County, just to the south of Mount Kenya and to the east of Nyeri County (which produces our Zawadi PeaberryPeaberryA cherry that grows one round seed instead of the usual two flat-sided ones. Sorted and sold separately; some claim it cups brighter and more concentrated.), this origin uses the classic Kenyan varietals, SL28SL28A Kenyan variety selected in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories, prized for intense blackcurrant acidity and deep sweetness. & Ruiru 11. Both created through selective breeding specifically for the Kenyan climate, they’re respected as some of the most exceptional cup profiles in the world. The 'AA' classification refers to the size of the bean, meaning that the green coffeeGreen coffeeUnroasted coffee seeds as they are traded and shipped. Roasters buy green and roast locally; 'green buying' is the sourcing side of the craft. bean is just a little more than one-fourth inch (¼") in diameter.