Looking for peaches, nectarines and plums galore? Popping, jammy acidity? Look no further, my friend-- the Kenya Karatu Peaberry is here. This classic Kenyan coffee is laden with intense stone fruit flavors, anchored with a caramel and citrus undertones. Sipping this coffee is a treat, starting with vibrant aromatics and finishing with a sugary sweet aftertaste.
The award-winning Karatu Coffee Factory is located near the town of Thika, Kenya. Around 2,500 small producers belonging to the Gitwe Farmers' Cooperative Society, including 300 youth, 700 women and 1,500 elderly men, process their coffee at Karatu. Coffee is selectively hand-picked and stringently hand-sorted prior to pulping. After pulping, coffee is fermented overnight and sorted by density before being delivered to the soaking tank by water pumped from the local Rwarbura river. After soaking, the coffee is spread out on raised drying tables and carefully monitored until it reaches around 11% moisture.
This lot is made up exclusively of the peaberries, or the tiniest beans from the harvest. Peaberries are simply a rare mutation of the coffee seed inside the cherry that happens when only one seed develops in the cherry, instead of two.
Region : Kiambu
Elevation: 1,800-1,900masl
Process : Washed
Variety : SL-28 & SL-34
Harvest : January 2021
Water Activity : .48
Moisture: 10.7%
Cupping score 87.75
