KENYA - FILTER

About this coffee

Kainamui is the name of the processing station this coffee is from. A processing station is a kind of hub: coffee from many different local farms is transported there to be processed and made ready to export. Kainamui is owned by the New Ngariama Farmers Cooperative Society, and serves about 1800 members - all smallholder farmers who own, on average, just under half a hectare of land. The co-op also provides prefinancing for farmers, allowing them to pay school fees and production costs.

In a lot of ways, this is a very classic Kenyan coffee: from its flavour notes to its varietals (Batian, SL28, SL34 and Ruiru 11), it's exactly what you want from a Kenyan. It's also gone through the distinctive Kenyan washed process.

There's a few different names for this process -- double fermented, Kenyan double washed, the 72hr process -- and it is a very distinctive method. It involves two separate 24hr fermentations (one dry, one submerged) and then a final wash. It brings out so much brightness and clarity in the coffee, and is used pretty much throughout the entire country.