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African bean flavor: Ethiopian coffee has a strong orange flavor, Kenyan coffee has a strong berry flavor, dark plum juice and grapefruit acid flavor, and sugar cane sweet flavor. The orange aroma of Ethiopian coffee and the berry aroma of Kenyan coffee are the biggest characteristics of African beans, and coffee fans are most fascinated.

Flavor characteristics of Kenyan coffee

Kenyan coffee is complex and fruity with bright acidity, rich taste and unique aroma. The most well-known of these flavor characteristics, let many people love it.

Kenya has many coffee producing regions and varieties. In Kenya, there is high altitude, steady rainfall and good soil quality. There are several major producing areas in central Kenya (Kenya and Aberdare Mountains), western Kenya (Kisii, Nyanza and Bungoma), the Great Rift Valley (Nakuru and Kericho), eastern Kenya (Machakos, Embu and Meru) and coastal Kenya (Taita Hills). These regions have unique climatic and coffee growing conditions, and there are sub-regions, which will make coffee flavors produce subtle differences.

Kenya also has a variety of coffee varieties, especially SL28 and SL34, which are less common in other coffee-producing countries and produce coffee with complex aromas. You may have heard of K7, which is planted at lower elevations and is more drought-tolerant because of its deeper roots. Batian and R11 are two other varieties bred in the laboratory to resist coffee-related diseases.

In addition to specific regions and varieties, you may have heard of Kenyan coffee grading methods, which may be AA, AB, PB, C, E, TT according to the size, shape and quality of the beans. These names all have meanings. AA/AB/C stands for different sizes of coffee beans, PB stands for round beans (that is, a coffee fruit has only one seed), E stands for extremely large coffee beans (elephant beans), TT stands for low density coffee beans (poor quality).

Kenya coffee has a large following in the boutique coffee world, and Kenya AA has extraordinary popularity.

Knowledge: Arabica is one of two very important varieties in the commercial coffee industry, the other being Robusta.

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