Kenya - Washed - Karugiro AA

This coffee was produced in Muranga, within the Central Province. This area has more smallholder farmers than estates who all together total around 100,000 in the region. The producers of this coffee are in fact smallholders who work with the Karugiro Factory, part of the Kamacharia Farmers Cooperative Society. The factory is located in the Kamacharia Division of the Mathioya District and has around 900 active members who bring their cherries to the stations for processing. Most often, they have 0.5 ha plots with around 200 coffee trees of varieties such as SL34, SL38, Ruiru 11, and Batian.

After careful harvesting, the cherries are meticulously sorted, properly de-pulped, fermented, washed, and dried under the African sun on so-called "African Beds" until reaching the optimum rate of moisture, approximately 12%.