Kenya Kirin Yaga Cabingala SL34 Kenyan Coffee Flavor introduction

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Kenya Kirinyaga Kabingara SL34 washed

Kenya Kirin Yaga Cabingala SL34 washing

Country of production: Kenya Kenya

Producing area: Qilin Yajia Kirinyaga

Washing plant: Cabingara Kabingara

Washing Plant Manager: Newton Mureithi

Altitude: 1600 m

Bean seed: SL34

Treatment: washing Washed

Flavor: red raisin, lime, grapefruit, plum

Kirin Yaga Cabingala Kabingara

The coffee comes from Kirinyaga, in Kenya's central province, and ranks alongside Neri as the best producing area in Kenya, close to the primeval forest of Mount Kenya, and the nearby town of Kerugoya.

The Kabingara washing plant, founded in 1988, is nearly 30 years old. It covers an area of 7 acres and has 700 active members. Coffee farmers in several nearby villages, such as Kamwana, Gatumbi, Kithama and Kathaka, send cherries for processing. Coffee trees grow at 1600 meters above sea level. Cabingala is one of two washing plants under the jurisdiction of the Karithathi Cooperative, and the manager of the washing plant is Newton Mureithi.

Unlike other washers, Cabingara's production is relatively small, which gives them enough space to dry coffee, and other washers often have to put away beans that are not completely dry, creating defective flavors.

Another feature of Cabingara coffee is that it contains up to 99% SL34 and trace amounts of Ruiru 11. The average Kenyan bean is usually a mixture of SL34 and SL28, and there is much more SL28 because the production of SL34 is low and the flavor of Cabingara is quite different from that of other Kenyan washing plants.