KENYA NYERI GICHATHAINI AA

Gathaithi is the name of the washing station where this coffee was processed, as well as the local Farmers Cooperative Society. Wet mills are referred to as "factories" in Kenya, each serving a particular micro-region, and often associated with a few other cooperatives that fall under a conglomerate umbrella that is the "Farmers Cooperative Society". Gathaithi station is where the local members deliver their whole coffee cherry for processing: first pulping in a 3-disc "Kenya" style pulping machine, fermenting overnight, then washing away the cherry skins in clean water, and then soaking once more in fresh water before the parchment coffee is laid out to dry on raised drying beds. There are currently 1250 coop members, and the average altitude is 1700 meters above sea level, though farms fall on both side of that number.

Country: Kenya

Variety: SL-28, SL-34, Batian

Process: Washed

Flavor Profile: Stone Fruit, Lemonade, Vanilla