Kibukwo AA – Kenya

Casis,
Rhubarb,
Molasses.

Producer Vava Coffee
Process Washed
Region Nandi, Rift Valley
Variety SL28, Ruiru 11, Batian, SL34
Altitude 2000 – 2150 masl
Suggested for Filter

Kibukwo FCS has approximately 512 active members and has also been a beneficiary of the Growing Women in Coffee project. Through this project, men who belong to Kibukwo started giving their wives and some youth a few coffee bushes that they would maintain and harvest as their own.
In time, the project saw the women attain more economic independence and a sense of self-confidence as they received other forms of training from the Climate Academy. Over the years the cooperative now has women in leadership positions and improved coffee quality remarkably.

The Lot
The coffee cherries are carefully handpicked, sorted then soaked in fermentation tanks overnight.
The coffee is then dried on elevated drying beds under the sun and during the heavy rains in green-house like sheds to achieve the appropriate moisture content prior to milling and export.

Different from the rest of the selection with lots of spice and umami notes that were already clearly detectable in the nose and translated in the cup as well in medium intensities together with herbal and citrus fruit notes. Finish is quite lingering, molasses like, acidity is medium, citric- tartaric and body is as well medium-high, round.