Kenya

Kenya | Kagumo

blackcurrant · grapes · citrus

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What kava.family says about this coffee

What this coffee feels like?

You're 10 years old and your neighbour just gave you a handful of blackcurrants over the fence from their garden. You stuff them in your mouth all at once, the burst of sour and sweet hitting you so fast your eyes water — and before you've even swallowed you're already reaching for more.

We visited Kagumo factory this February on our African trip with Project Origin and selected this lot for its freshness and punchiness. It’s getting extremely hard to find SL variety only Kenyan coffees these days due to new varieties made to produce higher yields.

Kagumo Factory has been processing coffees grown and harvested from the healthy deep red volcanic soils, vibrant in colour and rich in phosphorous, for a long time. But the infrastructure has been around much longer. Originally opened as a sisal factory in the mid 1950’s, this factory used to process sisal fibers from an agave plant. Today, it is represented by many cooperative societies including the Aguthi Farmers Cooperative Society, and processes both traditionally natural and washed style coffees.

The Aguthi Farmers Cooperative Society at the Kagumo Factory represent 501 farmer members, of which 1…

Their own sales copy, as published on their page and not checked by us. We keep the first 1,200 characters of it, which is why it stops where it does. read it on their page (opens in a new tab)

What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Kenya

Region

Kirinyaga

Producer

Kagumo

Process

washed

Variety

Heirloom, SL28

Not stated

farm or estate, altitude, harvest, lot, importer, price paid to the producer

We report what the roaster publishes and we have not checked any of it independently. A fact nobody publishes is not a fault of the coffee: almost no roaster in the UK states an importer or the price paid to the producer.

How it sits among coffee from Kenya

How often roasters use each flavour family to describe coffee from Kenya: 509 of 1,189 carry notes. The dashed outline is the whole catalogue. These are the roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement.

kava.family describe this coffee as fruity, citrus. The filled shape is how often roasters use each family across coffee from Kenya; the rings on the rim are this coffee’s own.

Every family the roaster names is a common one for coffee from Kenya, so this reads as a typical example rather than an outlier.

The roasters’ own words, grouped — not our tasting, and not a measurement. We have not tasted this coffee. All Kenya coffees

Where each fact came from

Variety

“Across a wonderful 186 acres, this factory processes coffee harvested from over 100,000 trees, varying from SL varieties, to ruiru II and heirloom.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Region: Kirinyaga Producer: Kagumo factory&Project Origin Altitude: 1850, Variety: SL28&SL36 Process: washed Notes: blackcurrant, grapes, citrus WEIGHT: 250g Please note that 250g bags can be shipped in kava boxes as an additional option.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Region

Processing

“Today, it is represented by many cooperative societies including the Aguthi Farmers Cooperative Society, and processes both traditionally natural and washed style coffees.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Producer

Tasting notes

A further 2 facts on this page were read from part of the shop page that holds no sentence — a menu or a product grid — so there is nothing to quote for them.

Taken from the roaster’s own pages, and nothing here has been verified by us or by an independent body. What we store is a passage of page text cut around the fact, so one shown with an ellipsis is a passage we cannot see the start or the end of; only the fully quoted ones are complete sentences.