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Kenyan AA Fram Farm "Harvest season Flavor Champion" bidding batch

Kenya TOH champion AA Fram Fram Farm

After Ethiopia's "Sakuran" and Uganda, the third African competition TOH champion, from Kenya's Qiyan Waterfall production area of the small farm, Fram, beans are SL28 and SL34, bidding lots by Qingdao baking bean factory Fisher, this is also their second TOH championship, its attempt should not be underestimated. We once had Qiyan Falls coffee from Oden, but that time from the cooperative, Fram had his own washing factory to deal with the fresh fruit picked on the farm, and the quality was strictly controlled. No wonder he won the first place with the highest score of 85.3 points. Please taste the champion beans!

The most important raw bean competition in Africa, called the East Africa Harvest season Competition (East Africa Taste of Harvest competition;TOH), is held in various countries every year, similar to the Cup of Excellence in Central and South America. TOH has become an arena for discovering the best coffee in Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Congo. This year's 2017 Kenya competition was won by the Fram farm in the Kiambu producing area, and Fisher coffee from Qingdao, China won the bid!

Fram, a private farm owned by James Kariruki and part of a larger family farm, has been around for generations and inherited 3 hectares of land when James's father died. James invested a lot in this former farmland, and then bought more land, covering an area of 9 hectares. The only variety planted in the 1980s was SL28,1993, where he built a washing plant and could handle his own cherry fresh fruit. His brother could also deal with the fresh fruit. The reputation of the Kariruki family for producing high-quality coffee was finally established. Fram produced AA, AB and PB, and the coffee that won the championship was AA. And the other round bean also got a good place.

Coffee was introduced to Kenya in the late 1800s, and 15 years of development made large coffee plantations flourish, but the transformation in the 1930s made Kenya the highest level coffee producer in the world, the emergence of new varieties in the SL series. At that time, the Kenyan government hired Scott Laboratory (Scott Laboratories, SL) to develop higher-yielding and more drought-resistant beans, so it developed a hybrid of SL-28 and SL34, bourbon and Ethiopian native species. But instead of bringing a higher yield as expected, this new variety is a very delicious coffee with a strong citrus sweetness and a balanced and complex flavor.

Water washing at Fram Farm, Qiyan Waterfall, AA, Kenya

Kenya AA Kiambu Fram farm washed

Country of production: Kenya Kenya

Producing area: Qiyan Waterfall Kiambu

Farm: Fram Farm Fram Farm

Farmer: James Kariruki

Altitude: 1860 m

Variety: SL28,SL34

Treatment: washing

Winning record: The Taste of Harvest, winner of 2017 Kenya Raw Bean Flavor Competition

Grade: AA