Our second Kenyan release of the season comes from the Karimikui washing station in Kirinyaga county on the southern slopes of Mount Kenya. Just like the Kiangoi before it, it’s another classic washed Kenyan offering - round and syrupy sweet, with soft florals, reminding us of blackberry, fig and brown sugar.
Karimikui
£14.00
£49.00
Delivery Details
Orders received by 9am Monday / Thursday will be dispatched by Wednesday / Friday with Royal Mail Tracked 24 (or with DPD if over 2kg). Tracking information will be sent to the email and mobile provided at checkout on dispatch.
Our Packaging
Our 250g and 1kg bags are made from 83% post-consumer recycled material and are fully recyclable, including the valve and zipper.
Please put the entire bag in soft plastic recycling (LDPE - Plastic #4) along with plastic bags, bread wrappers and any other plastic film.
If you don't have your own kerbside LDPE recycling collection, you can find your nearest LDPE recycling point here.
Round and syrupy sweet, with soft florals, reminding us of blackberry, fig and brown sugar.
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OriginGithure, Kirinyaga
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CountryKenya
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Altitude1,600-1,800 MASL
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ProcessWashed
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VarietyL28, SL34, Ruiri 11, Batian
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NotesBlackberry, Fig, Brown Sugar
Origin Story
Karimikui was established in 1966 to serve the neighbouring Githureia, Gituba and Kia Mugumo villages, and has established a reputation for producing some of Kenya’s most consistently high-quality, complex and flavour-dense coffees.
On delivery, the coffee is pulped then left to ferment in parchment overnight. The coffee is then washed and graded into five densities, before being sun-dried on raised beds for 8 to 14 days. At the dry mill the coffee is then sorted again by size, this lot representing the AB separation of beans larger than 6.6mm in diameter.
We selected this coffee at Nordic Approach’s Spring Cupping in Oslo earlier this year. Nordic Approach is a coffee importer based in Norway that has a reputation for importing some of the best Kenyan coffees around. Their Spring Cupping is the first chance to taste fresh crop coffees from Kenya, so we made the journey to Oslo determined to secure some of the season’s best lots. By happy accident, from a blind cupping of around 20 Kenyan coffees, all the coffees we selected were from washing stations operated by Rungeto - Karimikui, Kiangoi and Kii - so they’re clearly onto something!
On delivery, the coffee is pulped then left to ferment in parchment overnight. The coffee is then washed and graded into five densities, before being sun-dried on raised beds for 8 to 14 days. At the dry mill the coffee is then sorted again by size, this lot representing the AB separation of beans larger than 6.6mm in diameter.
We selected this coffee at Nordic Approach’s Spring Cupping in Oslo earlier this year. Nordic Approach is a coffee importer based in Norway that has a reputation for importing some of the best Kenyan coffees around. Their Spring Cupping is the first chance to taste fresh crop coffees from Kenya, so we made the journey to Oslo determined to secure some of the season’s best lots. By happy accident, from a blind cupping of around 20 Kenyan coffees, all the coffees we selected were from washing stations operated by Rungeto - Karimikui, Kiangoi and Kii - so they’re clearly onto something!
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