Blackcurrant, grapefruit, dark treacle

Kamwangi AA

Kamwangi is a factory of the New Ngariama Farmers Co-operative Society in Kirinyaga, taking cherry from roughly nine hundred smallholders on the red volcanic soil below Mount Kenya. Cherry is depulped the day it is picked, fermented overnight, washed through the channels and dried on raised beds for around fourteen days. This is the reason people become annoying about Kenyan coffee: blackcurrant and grapefruit, a dense syrupy body, and an acidity that is sharp without being thin. Brew it as filter, 60 g/L, water just off the boil. It is not an espresso coffee and we would rather you did not force it.

This lot

Producer

Kamwangi Factory, New Ngariama FCS (≈900 smallholders)

Origin

Kirinyaga, Nyeri, Kenya

Altitude

1,700–1,850 m

Varietal

SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11

Process

Washed, 14-day raised-bed dry

Harvest

Oct–Dec 2025 main crop

Roast

Light

Lot size

18 bags (1,080 kg)