Kenya AA

Among the world’s best coffee producers, Kenyan coffee certainly has personality. This coffee will warm you up, coating your taste buds with full-boded, sweet umami. One of our favorites.

• Kenya
• Variety SL28
• Fully Washed
• 1800-2000 Meters

Roast Profiles

Light Roast – Recommended

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Pomelo
Floral
Tomato Soup Aroma
Fruity
Black Grape Skin
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

A light roast here yields rich tomato soup aromas and pomelo sweetness with a finish of black grape peels. 

Roaster’s Choice

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Pomelo
Floral
Tomato Soup Aroma
Fruity
Black Grape Skin
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Darkening the beans a bit further preserves some tomato soup aromas and black grape but a pronounced brown sugar sweetness emerges.

Dark Roast

Pepper & Spices
Spices
Caramel
Nutty, Cocoa​
Pomelo
Floral
Raisin
Fruity
Sweet Red Wine
Fermented
Citrus
Citrus
Herbal
Herbal

Dark roasts will burn off all the tomato notes, leaving behind a red wine sweetness and caramel body.

AA grade coffee from small lots in Kenya.

The land is truly the star of the show in this coffee and the producers know it. Something in the soil gives beans grown here their iconic flavours and rather than messing with it, the producers get out of the way and let the coffee express itself. 

Once properly ripened, these Kenyan beans are Fully Washed, meaning they are stripped of all fruit and mucilage, leaving behind only the seed. This processing technique yields a very clean taste, showcasing the pure flavours of the terroir without any human influence.

What this means for you, is that the surprising tomato aroma is completely pure. All of the rich umami notes, the vibrant acidity and the sweet black grape tannins are are perfectly preserved in your cup: gifts from the Kenyan soil.

Resting Your Coffee

Right after roasting, coffee needs some time to chill for a minimum of three days. Our roasting cycle ensures that when you receive the beans, it’ll already have rested the minimum needed. However, the flavours will continue to improve over a time. How long? Well that depends on the roasting level you ordered.

Generally your coffee will taste best after:

Light: 14-28 days
Roaster’s Choice: 10-21 days
Dark: 3-14 days

But tasting is really the best way to figure it out.

No Pre-Ground Beans?

Unfortunately no. We would love to make your experience as convenient as possible, and while grinding your own beans is firmly in the mildly to very annoying category, we simply can’t do this for you.

The reason being, the second you grind your beans, you expose every nook and cranny to delicious coffee’s nemesis: oxygen. Too much oxygen and your coffee can go stale before you receive it in the post.

As delicious tasting coffee is our most important product we can’t take the risk of sending you a convenient but bland ground beans. Our best advice would be for you to buy a grinder.