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This batch of Karoguto Karogoto AA Specialty lot in Kenya, from Tekangu FCS (small Farmers' Cooperative), is produced by selected small farmers affiliated to the Karogoto processing plant.

Small farmers who produce Karogoto have won many Dorman micro-processing farm coffee competitions. They have won the championship and are good at producing excellent micro batches. The number of this elite class is Group A; this batch is newly collected by 2017 elites.

Karogoto Group An is composed of dozens of small farms, and it is highly respected among the nearly 1000 coffee farmers in Karogoto. After all, they win the annual competition, which is very helpful to the external quotation (starting price) of the entire miniature wet treatment plant (wet miller factory). It is famous and the quality continues, and the selling price is really good.

The Karogoto micro-processing plant is located in Nyeri District. The planting land of these small farmers is very high, more than 1800 meters, and the average planting area of each coffee farmer is only 1 hectare. The local temperature difference is great, the low temperature is about 14 ℃, and the high temperature at noon is only 25 ℃. Most of the high-altitude coffee growing areas in this region have this climatic feature. Coupled with the fertile red volcanic soil of Mount Kenya, the coffee flavor brewed is naturally excellent, according to the cooperative. The batches harvested in this region generally have a variety of aromas, dark berries, good sense of oil, chocolate and rich and varied aftertaste.

Nyeri, a central city in the central province, had a better infrastructure in the British colonial era, coupled with the excellent quality of farming in this area, so it gathered a lot of excellent coffee processing farms, not limited to coffee, but also other farming.

Harvesting and handling of Karogoto AA Top Specialty lot

This batch of specialty lot is exquisite hand-picked, and only ripe cherries are harvested. On the same day, they are sent to the wet treatment plant to remove the flesh, wash them and enter the fermentation tank. The traditional Kenyan three-time fermentation tank is used to treat the cherries, and the quality control is carried out from the beginning of receiving the cherries.

The receiving station is screened according to different batches, then washed and selected high-density fruits for a second screening, followed by fermentation operations, depending on the climate and bean conditions, to determine the fermentation time, and then washed twice. Pick Kenya's famous scaffolding sun] to dry. After the sun is finished, it is sent to the ventilated storage space of Karogoto, waiting for maturity and stability, and then shelled, graded and vacuum sub-packed before export.

This batch of Karogoto Specialty lot is still selected from small farmers Group A. the information is as follows:

Country: Kenya

Production area: Nyeri high mountain area

Producers: Karogoto Group A, smallholder, Orsir Coffee specialty lot

Grade: AA

Altitude: 6000 ft

Soil: volcanic soil

Variety: SL28, SL34

Harvest time: 2017 harvesting treatment

Processing mode:

Artificial harvest garden belongs to the wet treatment of centralized treatment, traditional fermentation, water washing, African style, scaffolding solarization method.

Cup test report: M0 baking degree, starting pot in the middle of an explosion, baking time 12 minutes

Dry aroma: honey, vanilla, berry, black plum, fresh cream, sugar fragrance

Wet fragrance: dark berry, caramel, flower fragrance

Sipping: clean and delicate, BlackBerry, clear aroma, delicate grease and good coating, sweet honey, dark plum finish, thick, delicate and long-lasting.

Kenya AA Carlo Goto: 15g powder, medium and fine grinding (small Fuji ghost tooth knife 3.5grind), v60 filter cup, 90-91 degrees water temperature, first water injection 30g water, conduct 30s steaming, water injection to 110g water cut off, wait for powder bed water quantity under half and then water injection, slow water injection until 225g water quantity, tail section no, water-powder ratio 1:15, extraction time 2:12.