Kenya: Thunguri

Our newest Kenyan Crop, a beautiful washed AB, roasted with a medium profile in mind, giving wonderful developed flavours of Hokey Pokey, Chocolate Almonds, and a Juicy Finish.

The Thunguri factory is part of a 9 mill coffee society that dates back to 1953, for the last 70+ years this factory has been producing amazingly high grade and consistent coffee.

Havesting and Sourcing

After picking, ripe cherry is brought to the factory by smallholder farmers, before it undergoes processing to remove the skin and pulp – known as the wet processing method. The factory is currently using a disc pulper to remove the skin and fruit from the inner parchment layer that is protecting the green coffee bean.

After pulping, the coffee is fermented overnight to break down the sugars, traveling through channels to the soaking tank the coffee is carefully cleaned, soaked and spread out on the raised drying tables. Time on the drying tables depends on climate, ambient temperature and total production volume undergoing processing. Drying can take from 7 to 15 days in total. Frequent turning and sorting will happen during the drying stage.