Kenya Coffee Bean Flavor Profile Characteristics Introduction Kenya Coffee's Historical Origin Story

What foods pair well with Kenyan coffee?

First and foremost are fruit foods—most berries, such as strawberries and raspberries. People sometimes drink coffee for a healthy lifestyle, and having only sweet treats isn't ideal! FrontStreet Coffee is here today to share some fruits that pair well with Kenyan coffee beans. The basic rule for most berries is to pair them with coffee from Kenya, Ethiopia, or Uganda. In this pairing, the coffee's fruity notes highlight the berry flavors.

For some people, coffee is the fuel for life, and so is breakfast—so why not pair them together? Perhaps the most common time to drink coffee during the day is breakfast. However, depending on your breakfast choice, why not pair it with your favorite coffee?

Have you noticed that when you go to a coffee shop, there are always various sweet baked goods? This is because they pair wonderfully with coffee! The sweetness of baked goods balances the bitterness of coffee. When you want to indulge or enjoy a delicious cake, pair your coffee with desserts!

FrontStreet Coffee's Kenyan Selection

FrontStreet Coffee offers a Bourbon variety SL28 and SL34 hybrid with Arabica coffee beans from Thika, Kenya. FrontStreet Coffee uses a medium-light roast degree, and cupping reveals intense lemon and plum aromas in the dry fragrance. When light-roasted, there are stunning floral and lemon notes during sipping, with green apple, berries, caramel, coffee berry sweetness, bright juiciness, crisp sweetness, and a caramel finish.

Brewing Recommendations

FrontStreet Coffee suggests using the standard three-stage brewing method when starting to brew this coffee.

• Recommended brewing method: Pour-over
• Dripper: V60 dripper
• Water temperature: 90-92°C
• Dose: 15g
• Ratio: 1:15
• Grind size: Medium-fine (80% pass-through rate on Chinese standard #20 sieve)
• Brewing method: Segment extraction

Start with 30g of water for blooming, blooming time about 30 seconds. Using a small stream, pour in a circular motion in the center with 125g of water in segments. When the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed, continue pouring to 225g total. Remove the dripper when the water level drops and is about to expose the coffee bed (timing starts from blooming). Total extraction time is 2'00".

The History of Coffee

Despite sharing an over 865-kilometer border with coffee's birthplace Ethiopia, coffee had to travel around the world to take root in Kenya. While the earliest credible reports place coffee in Ethiopia around 850 AD, coffee was not first planted in Kenya until 1893, when French missionaries planted trees at Bura in the Taita Hills.

Under British Empire rule, export-oriented coffee production expanded. Large privately-owned coffee plantations were established, with most of the harvest transported in parchment to Britain, where it was sold to roasters before milling. Roasters often blended Kenya's bright flavors with more chocolatey South American coffees.

Although the area and value of large estates were growing, indigenous Kenyans did not benefit from them. In fact, European settlers took direct action to exclude indigenous people from growing their own coffee.

To reduce competition, make labor easily available and inexpensive, and continue increasing demand for quality coffee, the Coffee Board was established to regulate coffee production and marketing. The Nairobi Coffee Exchange (NCE) (which continues to this day) was established in Nairobi to retain more value of origin green coffee.

The Coffee Board strictly controlled licensing for coffee cultivation and processing. Although the implemented laws did not explicitly prohibit indigenous people from growing coffee, it was not until the 1950s that large estate owners functionally made coffee cultivation licenses inaccessible to indigenous farmers.

These laws protected the interests of large landowners. More cultivation would not only lower the price of Kenyan coffee, but large farm owners feared that if smallholders and indigenous farmers had their own coffee farms, they would not work for wages on settler farms.

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