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Washed & Dried is a coffee series designed to celebrate great washed processing, where coffee seeds are dried alone, depulped of their cherries and washed of their mucilage. These kinds of coffees usually express with clean, citric acidity, and approachable nuanced flavors.
This coffee was immediately depulped and put into a washing basin filled with water for three days. Afterwards, the basin was drained and the seeds were triple-washed to remove any mucilage still sticking to them. The coffee was finally laid on raised mesh beds to sun-dry for 7 to 21 days.
We purchased this coffee from Highlands Global, a Kenyan coffee importer that works closely with farmers and Co-ops to produce high quality, high density, Kenyan coffees. Highlands Global buys cherries directly from farmers and co-ops in Kenya then, has them processed at a factory–adding around $1.50 per pound onto their cost before exporting. This particular lot was purchased from the Mutheka Farmers Cooperative Society in Nyeri, Kenya.
WHAT IS WASHED PROCESSING?
Processing refers to the method a coffee farmer takes to get the coffee from within the cherry, to a dried seed that’s ready to be exported to us. Washed processing is often considered the “standard” processing method in specialty coffee, usually accentuating brighter, crisper acidity and cleaner brews.
Coffee cherries are depulped, leaving coffee seeds covered in mucilage (The flesh of the coffee cherry).
After depulping, the seeds are fermented in tanks (often 12-48 hours) to break down the mucilage.
The seeds are then removed from the tanks and the mucilage is washed off.
The coffee is then dried for around 5 - 15 days forming a hard, papery shelled known as parchment.
Finally the green coffee is milled of it’s parchment layer, and sent to us!
VOL. 5 - AGRICULTURE INFO
Produced by the Mutheka Farmers Co-Operative.
A washed process coffee.
A blend of native SL-28 & SL-34 varieties.
Grown at an altitude of 1800 - 2100 Meters (6230 - 6890 Feet)
Harvested December 2024 - March 2025.
TASTING NOTES BREAKDOWN
Communicated on the bag broadly as Fruity, Bright, Sweet & Clean.