Kenya AA boutique coffee producing areas: Nyeri Neri, Kirinaga, Murang'a Mulanka

Kenyan coffee has many followers in the boutique coffee industry, and Kenyan AA has an extraordinary popularity.

Usually Kenyan coffee is classified as follows:

1) Common categories:

Hand-picked coffee fruit, picked by hand, picked out immature fruit (unripe), overripe fruit (overripe) and other defects, peeled, after about 36 hours of fermentation, placed on a metal grid for sun drying, in the processing plant to remove the seed shell (parchment), become a blue-green appearance of attractive Kenyan raw beans.

These beautiful raw beans are graded according to particle size (size), shape (shape) and weight (weight):

E:kenya E, elephant beans, above elephant bean,18 (including round beans)

Round beans containing large grains, like PB, are small in quantity.

AA:Kenya AA,17-18 mesh

AB:Kenya AB,15-16, which is a mixture of An and B.

Grade An above 17 mesh (6.8mm), grade B above 16 mesh (6.3mm)

Light beans selected by TT:AA and AB by airflow separator

Over PB:Kenya PB,15, round beans and peaberry account for about 10% of Kenyan coffee.

CRV 12-14 mesh and PB light bean screened by air flow separator

Under 12 eyes, there are more defective beans, chopped beans and light beans.

HE: beyond the above level becomes HE (Hulled Ears)

Main producing areas

Boutique coffee producing areas are mainly from the following counties: Nyeri Neri, Kirinyaga Kirinaga, Murang'a Mulanka.

In addition, Embu Enbu and Laikipia Lecipia are also common.

Referring to the topographic map, we can see that the well-known producing areas are located around Mount Kenya.

Naming of raw beans

The name of Kenyan raw bean can basically be interpreted in the following ways:

Country name + county name + (cooperative name +) processing plant name + grade + other

For example, Kenya Nyeri Gatomboya AA GP, that is, the AA raw bean from the Kato Boya processing plant in Neri County, Kenya, is packed in a special grain bag. 、

Kenyan coffee is mainly named after coffee processing plants, and it is difficult to trace it back to specific farmers.

Thanks to Kenya's famous coffee auction system, coffee quality has been steadily maintained at a high level.