Kenya Rita AB Washed
Kenya Rita AB Washed
115g bag · Next shipment around Oct 31
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This fully washed coffee from Karatina, in Kenya’s Nyeri region, is expressive and complex, offering dark cherry and peaches and cream sweetness balanced by a floral lift of oregano blossoms on the nose. The cup is structured and clean, with a silky body and vibrant acidity that lingers through a sweet, slightly-herbaceous and floral finish.
This lot is composed of SL28, SL34, and Ruiru 11 varietals, grown by smallholder farmers delivering to Mugaga F.C.S, which includes Kagumoini, Kieni, Gathugu, Kiambara, and Gatina factories. Cherries are hand-picked and delivered same-day to the wet mill, where they undergo rigorous sorting and washed processing with recirculated river water before sun drying on raised beds.
Sold in 115g bags.
- Funk
- 0CleanFunky
- Intensity
- –DelicateBold
- Processing
- –ClassicAdvanced
- Importer
- Roastmasters
- We paid
- $8.4/lb for the green coffee, before roasting
Brew it
CETO Standard
For coffees under 1.5 funk.
- Brewer
- V60 · Cafec Abaca filter
- Dose
- 12.5 g coffee : 200 g water
- Grind
- Medium-fine · 550 µm · 20 clicks C40
- Water
- ⅓-strength Third Wave Water Classic (or 80 ppm GH)
- Temp
- 92°C
- Bloom
- 40 g · 30 seconds
- Pours
- 5 × 40 g, fast (~10 ml/s)
- Total time
- 2:45 (last pour before 2:00)
- Rest
- 6+ weeks off roast
- 0:00Bloom with 40 g for 30 seconds.
- 0:30Pour 40 g in tight circles, spout close to the bed. Take the kettle off the base.
- ~0:50–2:00Three more 40 g pours, each just before the bed is exposed.
- ~2:45Drawdown finishes. Flash chill to about 50°C with a frozen Hyper Chiller or any cold mass.
Tune it: grind coarser for Kenyan and Colombian coffees, finer for other African lots. On a flat-bottom brewer with fast filters, grind a little finer.
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