Ndiaini × Gatuya Peaberry

A Kenyan peaberry that tastes like stone fruit and black tea, layered and clean. This is central Kenya in a cup.

This is a peaberry blend from two lots in central Kenya. The first is the Ndiaini factory in Nyeri County, a processing site first built in the 1970s and now part of the Rumukia Farmer Cooperative Society. The second is Gatuya, in neighbouring Murang'a County, where the New Murarandia Farmers Cooperative Society gathers cherry from around 3,500 smallholder farmers. Both sit in the high, mineral-rich country around Mount Kenya.

Both lots are peaberry. Most coffee cherries hold two flat beans, but every so often a cherry grows a single round one, and those get sorted out by size. Peaberries tend to roast more evenly. Between them the lots carry the classic Kenyan varieties: SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11, and Batian.

Both are washed: the fruit is removed from the bean, the coffee ferments overnight, then dries on raised beds. That is what keeps the cup clean and bright.

Roasted medium, in small batches in Calgary. Sold as whole beans.