Kenya - Thiririka AA 250g

Blackberries · Stone fruit · Citrus

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What Koppi says about this coffee

Flavour notes: Blackberries, Stone fruit, Citrus

Producers: 1500 member farmers at the Thiririka factory

Origin: Kiambu County – Kenya

Altitude: 1600–1800 masl

Cultivars: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11

Process: Washed

This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station. The team at the factory sort the cherries by hand before they go into production. After pulping the coffee is generally processed with dry fermentation for 12-14 hours before being washed and graded in channels.

Then, the coffee is dried on raised beds for between 10-15 days. More than half of all coffee produced in Kenya is grown by smallholder farmers, each with 1-2 hectares of land. Many farmers grow different crops and maybe have as few as 100 coffee trees. The farmers are organised in Cooperative Societies that act as umbrella organisations for the Factories (wet mills), where the smallholders deliver their coffee cherries for processing. Most farmers are surrounded by several wet mills and they are free to choose where they want to deliver their cherries.

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What the roaster says about where it came from

Country

Kenya

Process

washed

Variety

Ruiru 11, Batian, SL28, SL34

Altitude

1600 to 1800 m

Not stated

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

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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.

Koppi 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

Altitude, highest

“Altitude: 1600–1800 masl Cultivars: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11 Process: Washed This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Altitude, lowest

Variety

“Cultivars: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11 Process: Washed This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Flavour families

“Flavour notes: Blackberries, Stone fruit, Citrus Producers: 1500 member farmers at the Thiririka factory Origin: Kiambu County – Kenya Altitude: 1600–1800 masl Cultivars: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11 Process: Washed This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Country of origin

“Origin: Kiambu County – Kenya Altitude: 1600–1800 masl Cultivars: SL28, SL34, Batian, Ruiru 11 Process: Washed This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Processing

“Process: Washed This lot comes from the Thiririka Farmers Cooperative Society, and it consists of coffees from hundreds of smallholders from the area surrounding the washing station.” the roaster’s page (opens in a new tab)

Tasting notes

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.