Kenya Jiaotu Lili Cooperative introduces Kenyan coffee flavor Kenyan coffee hand brewing

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1930 Local Scott Laboratory in Kenya (Scott laboratories) In order to improve the coffee industry, they decided to start with local Kenyan varieties, hoping to cultivate varieties with high yield, resistance to diseases and insect pests, greater adaptability to weather changes, and ability to adapt to local soil characteristics. Researchers used traditional Kenyan native bourbon and mocha as paired improvements to cultivate two new future stars, SL28 and SL34. The flavor has strong fruit flavor beyond traditional bourbon, citrus, dark plum and so on. Kenya is a star producer of coffee in Africa. Although geographically close to Ethiopia, the coffee industry started relatively late. Kenya has become an important coffee producer for international coffee lovers with the booming development of fine coffee industry in the past decade. Although the overall coffee production accounts for less than 5% of the world, the characteristics of local soil rich in phosphoric acid, SL series varieties and local Kenyan washing are all reasons why Kenya coffee can be famous internationally today.

Gaturiri Factory, located in Nyeri, the most famous producing area in central Kenya, established its own washing plant in 1965 and currently has more than 900 small farmers; it joined the Banichu Farmer Cooperative Society in 1996. Kenyan washing: Kenya is located in the equatorial region, but coffee is grown at altitudes above 1700 meters and even up to 2100 meters. The average temperature is extremely low, making the pre-washing fermentation process take up to 72 hours.(In general, it usually takes only 24 hours, and the maximum is no more than 48 hours), low temperature and long time fermentation to get a brighter, cleaner and fuller flavor; after drying, all use elevated net bed, the advantage is good ventilation, can avoid contact with high temperature cement in the sun, so that coffee beans can be evenly dried, the height of the net bed and waist, but also convenient for farmers to select defects. Kenya was the first country in the world to adopt elevated net beds.

Suggested parameters: filter cup V60, grinding degree small Fuji 3.5 scale, water temperature 90°, powder-water ratio 1:15,15 g powder brewing 225 g water, total brewing time 2 minutes