Kii Peaberry

Our Kii Kenya Peaberry is a jammy coffee with a sweet-tart acidity and tasting notes of pomegranate, cherry licorice, panela, and cherry coca-cola. This coffee is great for both Kenya lovers and/or lovers of jammy coffees that are red fruit forward. It has the plush body typical of a Kenya coffee that is balanced exquisitely with sparkling fruit notes. 

Peaberry explained. A peaberry is when only one small round bean forms inside the coffee cherry rather than the usual two. Peaberries are often separated out from regular beans to sell as a distinct grade of coffee because of their elevated and unique cup profile.

Farm Level Info. This coffee comes from the Kii Factory, a processing station part of the Rung’eto Farmers’ Cooperative Society (F.C.S) in the Kirinyaga region of Kenya. Coffee here is grown in red volcanic soil by smallholder farmers located on the slopes of Mount Kenya. This area is well known for producing exceptional coffees due to ideal growing conditions including rich fertile soil and optimum weather. F.C.S. serves about 1,215 farmer members who have on average 400 coffee trees on 1/3 of a hectare. Members deliver ripe cherry to the Kii factory immediately after picking. The coffee is then sorted, separated, depulped, fermented (typically overnight), washed with fresh river water, and dried on raised beds.