Which Kenyan Coffee Brand Tastes Best? Kenya AA Coffee Beans: Special Love for Someone Special

FrontStreet Coffee - Kenya Nyeri AA Introduction

Kenya is a coffee origin we hold in the highest regard. Its berry-like fruitiness and singular acidity have shaped a flavor identity you will not find anywhere else in the coffee world. This winter we are welcoming the newest crop of Kenya AA, a lot that opens with raspberry and honey aromas and delivers a juicy, round, full-bodied mouthfeel in the cup.

Most Kenyan coffee farmers work tiny plots of land, typically between 0.5 and 3 acres. Under Kenyan law, anyone farming fewer than 5 acres must join a cooperative. The Ichuga Coffee Factory in Nyeri County belongs to the Kiama Farmers' Cooperative Society and is one of five washing stations serving the local market, sitting near the town of Karatina on the slopes leading up to Mount Kenya.

Smallholder members of the cooperative deliver their cherries to the factory, where the fruit is sorted, depulped, fermented, and washed; the wet parchment is then laid out to dry on raised beds. Once dry, the parchment goes to Kahawa Bora Millers to be hulled before it is trucked to the warehouse in Nairobi for export. Kenya is a truly formidable coffee origin, and to keep quality at that level, its best factories and estates obsess over traditional production practices and sweat every detail along the processing chain.

Kenya Nyeri AA

Region: Mt. Kenya Nyeri Hill Estate

Varieties: SL28, SL34

Harvest Period: June ~ December

Altitude: 1800m ~ 2100m

Processing Method: Washed

Cupping Notes: Round, blackberry, sweet, taro, fruit acidity, lingering aroma, well-balanced

FrontStreet Coffee Recommendation

If this profile speaks to you, FrontStreet Coffee's Kenya "Cherry Tomato" is a washed lot well worth trying. Kenya is famous for mastering the double washed process, running the beans through a second round of washing and soaking before they are dried on raised beds, hulled, and stored. All that extra rinsing and soaking pushes the juice-like quality of the cup to the extreme.

In the cup you get layers of cherry tomato, dried plum, snow pear, black plum, and yellow sugar, with a sweet-and-tart, juicy mouthfeel that keeps many coffee lovers coming back. It is one of the most celebrated washed coffees FrontStreet Coffee offers, and a natural next step for anyone who enjoys the bright, fruit-forward character of Kenya AA.