The cup exhibits - clean and full-bodied with dark dried fruit notes with ripe blackcurrant, and blackberry.
Per 250g pack - not the usual smaller 227g
Additional information:
Coffee:
Kikai
Farm: Various small growers
Varietal(s): Blue Mountain and SL28
Processing: Wet Process
Owner: Various small growers
City/Town: Kikai
Region: Nendi
Country: Kenya
Certification: N/A
Kikai is actually located only a few miles from Kamusinde another micro lot coffee that we offer - also grown by a small co-op in the area of Nandi right on the edge of the Rift Valley at an altitude of 2000 meters and this is an older growing area that still has pockets of Blue Mountain and the wonderful SL28.
(most areas have replaced the older cultivars such as Blue Mountain and SL28 for those that are more disease resistant such as poorer quality Ruiru ll).
This coffee is sweet different to Kamusinde, still clean and full-bodied but it's dark dried fruit notes are more evident, with ripe blackcurrant, and blackberry.
NB: The SL 28 cultivar was selected at the former Scott Laboratories (now the National Agricultural Laboratories, NARL situated at Kabete) on a single tree basis from the Tanganyika Drought Resistant variety selected in Northern Tanzania in 1931. The prefix SL in the variety name are acronymous for Scott Laboratories where the variety was selected. The name is completed by a serial number (28) for the selection. The variety is suited for medium to high altitude coffee growing zones.
There are two harvesting seasons here a year, in Oct-Dec (main crop) and the May-July (early crop)
Cupping Notes:
Clean cup: 7
Sweetness: 6
Acidity: 7
Mouthfeel: 7
Flavor: 7
Aftertaste: 6
Balance: 7
Overall: 7
Correction +36
Total 90
Brewing Notes:
Filtered: Yes
Espresso: No
