Artisan Roast - Kamwangi AA Kenya Special Reserve

Kamwangi factory is one of secondary processing units that form the larger New Ngariama FCS Society. Just over a thousand small holder farmers that supply this factory are spread around the town of Kianyaga, in Gichugu, Kirinyaga district almost directly south of the imposing Mount Kenya. As is common throughout Kenya, most producers in the co-opera- tive own a few hundred coffee trees and they deliver ripe red cherry from these trees into a central co-operative washing station, like Kamwangi, for further processing.

This special reserve selection from Kamwangi is of a quality rarely seen in a harvest season. It has an intensity and complexity of citrus, malic and phosphoric acidity, that only Kenyan coffee can produce. This is balanced supremely by a dense, heady sweet, viscous and syrupy melon mouthfeel. We have roasted this coffee light to preserve these characteristics along with a long list of flavours. The stand out characteristics for us are fresh raspberries, zesty grapefruits, and blackcurrant. Underlying notes of sweet butterscotch adds interest and harmony.

We are recommending this special reserve coffee as a filter, to bring our it's refinement and expressive nature. It will work in other brew methods .... if you can control temperature parameters on your espresso machine to reign in the acidity it will make a truly delicious single origin shot