African Coffee Beans Kenya AA Grade Classification Creates Wine-like Characteristics with Acidity and Aroma

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FrontStreet Coffee - Introduction to Kenya Coffee Grading

Kenya

Kenya is an important force in the East African coffee growing region. Whether it's the quality of its coffee or its business strategy, it is considered outstanding.

The excellent coffee produced here has clear, bright, and uplifting flavors that extend throughout the entire tongue. The flavors are complex and rich, with very interesting fruit notes (berries, citrus), and even spice flavors emerge. Clean, bright, with rare wine (grapefruit) characteristics.

Typically, excellent Kenyan coffee is not sold simply marked as AA or AB. It participates in various coffee auctions within Kenya, where only the highest bidder can win. The production region places great importance on variety research, cultivation improvements, and enhancing farmers' cultivation skills.

Each production region has slightly different methods for classifying bean grades. Kenya uses screen size as a standard, combining density and shape to classify coffee. So what are Kenya's grading levels?

Kenya coffee grades are divided into E-PB-AA-AB-C-TT-T-MH/ML.

Kenya E

Screen size 18 and above, called "Elephant Bean." Two seeds face-to-face combined into one, a mutant bean.

Kenya PB

It is also included in Kenya E, commonly known as peaberry.

Kenya AA

Screen size 17-18, planted at 1,400-2,000m high altitude, it is the largest size among normal green beans.

Kenya AB

Screen size 15-16, a mix of A grade (screen size 16-17) and B grade (screen size 15-16).

Kenya C

Screen size 14-15, lower density than grade AB.

Kenya TT

Screen size 15-17, bean size similar to AA-AB but with lower density.

Kenya T

Screen size below 12, broken, defective, or small beans.

Kenya MH/ML

Beans that fell naturally due to overripeness before harvest. The heavier ones are classified as MH grade (Mass Heavy), while the lighter ones are ML grade (Mass Light).

Knowledge Point:

After harvesting, all Kenyan coffee must be uniformly purchased by the government-established "Coffee Board of Kenya (CBK)", undergo cupping, and have coffee grades distinguished. Coffee grades are distinguished by "bean size," classified according to size, shape, and weight.

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