September - Ecuador - Abel Salinas - Mejorado - Washed
September - Ecuador - Abel Salinas - Mejorado - Washed
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About this coffee
The September team is now in its third year working with this Karimikui AA lot. Several Kenyan varieties are combined to create a field blend that is very lively and juicy in the cup.
- Region: Kirinyaga, Kenya
- Farm: Karimikui Factory, Rungeto FCS Cooperative
- Alitude: 1650 masl
- Variety: SL-28, SL-34, Baitan, Ruiru
- Process: Washed
- Roasting date: 09.12.2025
- Contents: 200 grams
About the farm
The Karimikui Washing Station is located at high altitude in a region where tea is actually grown rather than coffee. It belongs to the Rungeto Farmers Cooperative Society, a cooperative known for some of Kenya's best coffees. Every year, hundreds of small farmers deliver their perfectly ripened coffee cherries to this station, where the team carefully sorts the harvest by hand before processing begins. The result in the cup is an exceptionally sweet and intense coffee with notes of blackcurrant and sweet citrus fruit. The nutrient-rich soils of this region, combined with the very precise processing, ensure that this coffee performs consistently at the highest level year after year.
About the processing
The selected cherries are first pulped and sorted by quality before undergoing dry fermentation in tanks. The coffee is then washed and soaked in water again in a further process. In the final stage, the coffee dries on raised drying beds, which are covered with plastic during the hottest hours of the day and overnight, with the beans being turned regularly to ensure even drying.
About the variety
SL-28 is one of Africa's best-known coffee varieties. Developed in Kenya in the 1930s, it spread from there to Uganda and even Latin America. This variety thrives in medium to high altitudes, is resistant to drought, but susceptible to common coffee diseases – yet it impresses with its robustness: trees can stand for decades without intensive care and then produce high yields again. In Kenya, there are SL-28 plants that still bear fruit at 60–80 years of age.
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