Description
Origin: Kenya
Region: Nyeri County
Profile: Medium
Suggested Brew Method: Filter
NOTES | Apricots | Lemon| Green Apple | Brown Sugar
Kenya is one of the most respected specialty coffee producing origins, and each year we look forward to finding a great example of Kenyan coffee for our specialty estate drinkers. Most producers are smaller farmers, with less than 3 acres. By law any Kenyan Farmer with less than 5 acres must be organised into a cooperative, which is why most Kenya coffee is traceable to the factory (wet mill) – which services the surrounding farmers.
Mutitu factory is located in the Nyeri County, in the Central Highlands of Kenya. It has been running since 1957, which makes it one of the oldest wet mills in the country, and services around 750 farmers. The factory is on the Eastern Slopes of the Aberdare Mountain Range, with coffee being grown at altitudes ranging from 1600-1800 metres above sea level.
Bordering Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, it’s quite interesting to note the history of coffee growing in Kenya. It was 300 years after coffee’s first commercial cultivation that it made its way to the the country. The first varieties were brought in by Scottish and French Missionaries, with the French bringing Bourbon, and the Scottish bringing strains of the Mocha variety. These varieties had circumnavigated the globe, before making their way back to Africa and in to Kenya.
