How to make coffee in Kenya? How to make coffee in Kenya?

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Kenyan coffee has a sparkling, candy-like fruit that our coffee buyers sometimes compare to pop rock or happy ranchers. With their juicy taste, lively acidity, and sparkling, sweet and sour tropical and stone fruit flavors, they can really explode.

In Blue bottle, Kenyans are so precious that we tend to use them as a single source. If we mix them together, we will treat them as stress, accounting for only a small part of the total. Like maraschino cherries in sundaes, they make the mixture more shiny. A key exception is our summer blended coffee in 2019-our coffee team's dream of blended coffee, with Kenyan coffee accounting for 50%.

For those who prefer the more classic chocolate or brown sugar "coffee" flavor, Kenyan coffee may be polarized. For some people, they taste too sour, too risky, too strange.

But that's what attracts us-they broaden the range of coffee flavors. Usually we leave them on the cupping table and save them for the end, just like dessert.

Where did they get the incandescent crack? We speculate that this has something to do with Kenya's surprisingly short and exciting coffee history, which has given the country so many elements: its own varieties, auction systems, processing methods, and even its own extinct volcano. taken together, these factors may give their coffee an abnormal phosphorescence.

A late bloomer.

Geographically, Kenya is adjacent to Ethiopia, the birthplace of coffee, but it takes about a thousand years for coffee to cross the border. It must travel around the world first. It was not until the 1950s that Kenya began to grow coffee in large quantities. French missionaries first brought bourbon to Kenya in 1893, but coffee cultivation spread under British colonial rule. Since the beginning of the 20th century, British-owned estates have flourished, selling their harvests in England, where bakers mix more South American chocolate coffee with brighter coffee.

Until the 1950s, two things changed the history of Kenyan coffee forever. The first one has something to do with botany and the second one has to do with politics.

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