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Kenya Heji processing plant AB, pearl beans and limited hidden edition batches

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Country Kenya (Kenya)

Gatundu, Kiambu in producing area

Altitude 1770m (actual elevation measured by the processing plant)

GPS S 1 °0 & # 39 * * 2 "E36 °52 & # # 39 * * 20"

Variety SL28, SL34

Small farmers in cooperatives to which producers belong

Treatment Plant and Ji processing Plant (Handege Factory)

Cooperative Liwu Co-operative Society (Ritho FCS)

Traditional Kenyan washing treatment

In the cup test of thousands of cups of coffee every year, there are always a few when we meet with eyebrows and air condensation, which is enough to rekindle our enthusiasm when we are exhausted from testing thousands of cups each year.

Back and forth

Deliberate back and forth

Tossing and turning

Until the moment of landing and entering the warehouse, watching the painstaking efforts turn into reality, what I am looking for is the touching of that cup! The Heji processing plant is a cup of coffee that subverts our established impression of Kenyan coffee on the cup test table.

Unlike the familiar foothills of Mount Kenya (such as Nyeri, Kirinyaga, Embu, etc.), the Heji processing plant is located in the south near the capital, on a hillside with a considerable slope, which is one of the features that surprised us when we visited. Located relatively high down are cooperative offices, cherry collection stations, bean troughs, peeling machines and Kenyan fermentation tanks, followed by elevated scaffolding in the two areas all the way down in different directions.

The left side is similar to the well-known scaffolding, which is a horizontal sun-dried scaffolding with a terraced development perpendicular to the slope (that is, the distribution of contours). On the right, the scaffolding directly below the fermentation tank, the scaffolding of each bed goes all the way down the slope. In fact, such scaffolding is very common in Kenya, only because the slope of the Heji treatment plant is so steep that it has attracted our attention. Such scaffolding is mainly the initial drying of the surface layer of shell beans (pre-drying, or can be understood as draining and preliminary sun drying). After the completion of pre-drying, the staff of the treatment plant will manually send it to the sun drying scaffolding for the final drying process.

In the Kenyan washing process, there are two gravity / density separation mechanisms. The first is to remove the peel machine for washing and float to eliminate the lighter beans. The other is the beans finished in the fermentation process. In the process of repeated washing, the beans with light specific gravity are easily drifted forward by hydraulic power to achieve the effect of separation. The beans washed in water are then hydraulically guided to the top of the scaffolding through the pipeline and then down the river, and the beans of different proportions can naturally be sent to different bedframes through the pipeline. Kenya's high-quality water-washed beans selected by two gravitations are naturally much more homogeneous in maturity and specific gravity, which may be the reason for the higher dense measurements.

In this treatment plant, we can say that the classic scaffolding construction mode brought about by the Kenyan water washing method, which makes use of topography, hydraulic and fine washing processes, is worthy of reference.

Another rather amazing feature is that the Heji processing plant has invested money to build shading scaffolding similar to greenhouses that can only be seen in Central and South America in the past, on the one hand, to ensure stability in the process of weather change. On the other hand, it can also carry out experimental processes such as shading and slow drying, which is quite anticipated.

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