Green Label, Single Origin (Kenya) - 92 points

compote-like fruits, pie filling, stone fruits, brown sugar, bittersweetness

aka Pineapple Upside Down Cake

One of our featured Green Label selections comes from Mahiga Factory, Nyeri County, Kenya

Producer | Othaya Farmers Cooperatice Society

Elevation | 1,800 MASL

Process | Washed

Dosage recommendations:

Drip, 8g per 5oz coffee

8oz ~27 servings

32oz ~108servings

80oz ~270 servings

Espresso, 18g per double shot

8oz ~12 servings

32oz ~48 servings

80oz ~120 servings

From our partners: 

"The Mahiga Factory washing station sits at 1800 meters in the Othaya constituency of Nyeri County. With just over 500 farmer members, Mahiga collects and processes the whole coffee cherry for farmer members using a disc depulping machine before fermenting the coffee in order to remove the sticky demucilage layer. After the fruit is removed, the coffee is then soaked in clean water where they are completely "washed" of any remaining fruit residue, and then dried on raised coffee drying beds. Farmers in the region grow mainly SL-28 and SL-34, with small amounts of Ruiru mixed in. Mahiga is one of several coffees we picked up from Othaya Farmers Cooperative Society (FCS), an FCS that includes an impressive amount of wet mills, 18 in all, and their work in the region dates back to the late 1950s. Coffee is processed and kept separate by process batch at the factory in order to identify quality. The separated batches are then run through screens in order to separate beans by size, the most common being AA (17-19 screen), AB (15-17 screen), and Peaberry, all of which are referred to as "out-turns". This is the Peaberry outturn, a natural mutation that occurs where only 1 of 2 coffee seeds inside the coffee cherry germinates, causing it to take on a small, round shape like the cherry itself."

Photos 2-6 by Sweet Maria's