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Coffee Notes

Flavor Description

Intense lemon and plum aromas in both the dry and wet fragrance. Light-roasted, it offers stunning floral and lemon notes along with sweet, juicy flavors reminiscent of grapefruit green tea and citrus juice. Take the roast a little deeper and honey and raspberry-black plum come forward, while the finish leaves a delightful sweet-and-sour taste like green tea.

Origin and Processing

This Kenya comes from the Kongyu Processing Station in the Kirinyaga region, operated by the Kabare Farmers' Cooperative Society. Using the Kenyan double-washed method, it grows on the eastern slopes of the Kenya Mountains at 1550-1750 meters in Manyata-Embu County. The varieties are the classic Kenyan SL28 and SL34. Combined with the large day-night temperature difference and Kenya's red phosphorus soil, sweet-and-sour notes become the main flavor profile of this Kenyan coffee.

The cherries for this batch of Kongyu AA are harvested and processed by 250 farmers from the Kongyu Processing Station under the Kabare Farmers' Cooperative Society. After being pulped, fermented, and washed with water from the nearby Kongyu River, the coffee is laid out on African drying beds. Each harvest season, the farmers process nearly 300 tons of coffee cherries. After processing, the coffee goes to the weekly auctions held every Wednesday in Nairobi, and once licensed exporters select it, it ships to consumer markets worldwide.

Tasting Experience

In Kenyan coffees past, we chased after those angular, strong, powerful fruit acids. This one, though, brought a sense of gentleness, like facing the sea with a soft breeze blowing.

Product Information

Manufacturer: FrontStreet Coffee (FrontStreet Coffee)
Address: 10 Bao'an Front Street, Yuexiu District, Guangzhou
Manufacturer Contact: 020-38364473
Shelf Life: 90 days
Net Weight: 227g
Packaging: Bulk coffee beans
Roast Level: Roasted coffee beans
Sugar Content: Sugar-free
Origin: Kenya
Coffee Type: Other
Roast Degree: Light roast

Coffee Details

Country: Kenya
Grade: AA
Region: Kirinyaga region
Altitude: 1550-1750 meters
Soil: Red phosphorus soil
Processing Method: Kenyan double-washed processing method
Varieties: SL 28, SL 34
Processing Station: Kongyu Processing Station
Producer: Kabare Farmers' Cooperative Society
Flavor: Grapefruit green tea, citrus, raspberry-black plum

Kenyan Coffee Overview

Kenya, in East Africa, is one of the major coffee-producing countries, with roughly six million people engaged in the coffee industry nationwide, mostly as smallholders and cooperatives.

Brewing Method

Hand-poured Kongyu. 15g of coffee, medium-fine grind (Fuji ghost tooth burr grinder 3.5), V60 dripper, water temperature 91-93°C. First pour 30g of water, let it bloom for 27 seconds, then pour to 105g and pause. Wait until the water level drops to half before continuing to pour slowly until reaching 225g. Avoid the tail section. Water-to-coffee ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:00.

Kenyan Coffee Growing Regions

Kenyan coffee trees are mostly planted at altitudes of 1400-2000 meters. Growing regions include Ruiri, Thika, Kirinyaga, Mt. Kenya West, Nyeri, Kiambu, and Muranga, mainly on the foothills of Mt. Kenya and Aberdare.

Many regions in Kenya work to preserve native forest ecosystems, protect natural gene banks, support the propagation of wild coffee varieties, and nurture diverse coffee trees.

In 1930, Kenya's distinctive varieties SL28 and SL34, cultivated and named by Scott Laboratories, were born in just such a favorable environment.

According to botanists at SL Laboratories, SL28 and SL34 are genetic variants. SL28 has mixed lineage from French missionaries, Mocha, and Yemen Typica. The original goal in cultivating SL28 was to mass-produce beans that combined high quality with resistance to pests and disease.

Although SL28's yield did not match expectations, its copper-colored leaves and broad, bean-shaped seeds offer wonderful sweetness, balance, and complexly varied flavors, along with distinctive citrus and black plum characteristics. SL34 has similar flavors to SL28, but beyond its complexly varied acidity and wonderful sweet finish, its body is heavier and more intense, and cleaner. SL34 has lineage from French missionaries, Bourbon, and more Typica. The beans look similar to SL28 but adapt better to sudden heavy rains. These two important varieties are what lead us to understand the unique Kenyan style: strong, rich fruit acids, intense body, and beautiful balance.

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

Washed processing is what gives this Kenya its clean, bright character, and it is a method worth exploring further. Washed coffee is a traditional way of handling the fruit that relies on water: flotation, depulping, a soak and fermentation to strip the mucilage, washing or further soaking, then drying and hulling. Because the beans sit in water for a long time, chemical changes consume much of their simple sugars, fructose and glucose, lowering the sugar content while raising various organic acids. The result is a coffee that keeps more of its own aroma while showing bright fruit acidity, cleanliness, and freshness.

For a Kenyan coffee that leans the other way, FrontStreet Kenya Cherry Tomato is one of the best-known representatives, since Kenya excels at double washing, essentially repeating the washed process: flotation, soaking the beans in water, washing off the mucilage left on the surface, soaking again, drying in the sun, hulling, and storing. That repeated rinsing and soaking draws out a maximum of juice-like character, with cherry tomato, dark plum, snow pear, black plum, and yellow sugar notes and a sweet-tart, juicy body.

If you want a gentler washed cup, FrontStreet Yirgacheffe Gudingding Cooperative comes from the village of Gudingding, where smallholders deliver their cherries to a cooperative for centralized processing. The washed method shows its jasmine and bright citrus acidity to the fullest, and a medium-light roast adds green tea and honey notes; it works well as pour-over, cold brew, or espresso. FrontStreet Jamaica Blue Mountain No. 1 is another washed classic, its refined, lower-sunlight island character delivering hazelnut, cream, chocolate, and caramel with a balance in which no single note dominates or goes missing.