Description
Kenya Duma Nyeri
About This Coffee
Duma is sourced primarily through the Nairobi Coffee Exchange Auction. While farmers may make more money when their small, higher quality lots are sold at auction, the small size of such lots means that they still depend on selling the rest of their harvest at reasonable prices.
This is where Sucafina step in! They ensure that ALL farmers’ hard work gets the best possible return. Duma offers roasters consistent products in greater volume while ensuring a good price for farmers for their whole harvest. This coffee is ABC and 80+ SCA.
Duma is sourced from Kenya’s Central Province. It’s a special blend of ABC size grades grown by networks of small holder producers mainly surrounding the slopes of Mount Kenya and throughout the Aberdare mountain range.
Cultivation
Coffees from these areas are grown in rich volcanic sandy soils at high altitudes, ranging from 1,600-1,850 meters above sea level. Flowering takes place between March and April with the harvest spread between November and January. Wet mills have access to fresh, high-altitude streams, with which they produce immaculately washed coffees.
Harvest & Post Harvest
Small scale farmers are organized into well-managed central wet mills, known as “Coffee Factories”. These factories generally function as cooperatives. Following selective hand picking, farmers deliver their cherry to wet mills. At intake, cherry is hand sorted to remove any damaged or under ripe cherry before pulping. After pulping, coffee is fermented for 12 to 16 hours and then washed in fresh stream water. Wet parchment is dried on raised beds, where it is turned frequently to ensure even drying. Workers also sort through drying parchment to remove any damaged beans.
Kenyan coffee usually goes through strict screen grading where coffee is separated according to screen size. This blend, created by Sucafinas sister company in Kenya, marries together the best of all worlds
COFFEE GRADE: Nyeri ABC Fully Washed
FARM/COOP/STATION: Various
VARIETAL: Batian, Ruiru 11, SL28, SL34
PROCESSING: Fully washed
ALTITUDE: 1,600 to 1,850 meters above sea level
OWNER: Various
SUBREGION/TOWN: Various
REGION: Nyeri, Central Kenya
FARM SIZE: 250 to 350 trees on average
HARVEST MONTHS: Central Kenya: May – July (early crop) | October – December (late crop)
Information and pictures supplied by Sucafina
How to store coffee at home
To keep your coffee as fresh as possible, you need to protect your coffee from air, sunlight, heat, and moisture. These all will contribute to making it stale and lose flavour.
We suggest keeping your coffee in an airtight container, in a cool, dry cupboard. Our bags all have a de-gassing valve, to let out CO2 that the beans produce once roasted, it’s not just there to sniff the coffee, and a reusable ziplock. So if you don’t have a fancy coffee jar just push the air out the bag, zip the lock and give the bag another squeeze to get any remaining air out.
Do not store your coffee in the fridge. Roasted coffee absorbs moisture from the air (hygroscopic) and will also take up surrounding aromas. The aromas and moisture levels in the fridge will react with the coffee and delicate flavours will deteriorate.
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