Roaster's Tasting Notes: Redcurrant / Blackberry
Process: Washed
Varieties: SL28 / SL34 / Ruiru 11
Roast Date: August 28
250g / 8oz
Calendar is located in Galway, Ireland
From Calendar
The Kiangoi washing station is one of three wet mills owned by the Rung’eto Farmers Cooperative in Kirinyaga, Central Kenya. The producers that belong to the Cooperative farm coffee on the slopes of Mount Kenya. This region is famous for its volcanic soils and many would argue it produces some of the highest quality coffees in the world.
It's an interesting time for Kenyan coffee. With climatic changes and the rising popularity of disease resistant varieties, there is a broader range of flavour profiles now than ever before. It's still possible to find those classic, jammy, blackcurrant cups, but flavours of plums, red fruit, hoppy florals, and citrus fruits are becoming increasingly common.
We've been roasting coffee from Kiangoi for four years, and we think these lots are a great example of just how tasty this new wave of Kenyan coffee can be. Expect a well balanced and juicy cup with notes of blackberry, redcurrant and hemp-like herbals.
