Kenya Gachatha AA
Reviews.
pomegranate • gooseberry • bright
Ships within 1 week after roast date
Prodigal's coffee beans are at their peak 2 to 3 weeks after roasting
The Kenyan hits keep on coming! This coffee from Gachatha Factory is standing out with dense pomegranate and juicy, bright gooseberry. This is a "red fruit" coffee, and Scott particularly enjoyed the berry and winey flavors too.
Smallholder farmers bring their ripe cherry to Gachatha, the wet mill, where the coffee undergoes traditional Kenyan washed processing. This particular lot came from the main Kenyan harvest, which is picked from later-maturing, higher-altitude trees.
Process: Washed
Region: Nyeri County, Kenya
Variety: SL-28 & SL-24, Ruiru
Brewing Recipe :
| Filter | |
| Brewing ratio | 1 : 17 |
| Ground coffee | 16g |
| Total water | 250ml |
| Water temperature | 93ºc |
| Brew time | 3 minutes |
In the cup.
How Kenya Gachatha AA shows up — flavour profile, body, finish — graded on our internal cupping rubric.
Brew it
like this.
- Ratio
- 15g : 250g
- Time
- 3:00
- Temp
- 93°C
Bloom 30s. Four pours of 60g, 30s apart.
- Ratio
- 30g : 500g
- Time
- 4:00
- Temp
- 92°C
Plunge slow. Decant immediately to avoid over-extraction.
- Ratio
- 18g : 36g
- Time
- 28s
- Temp
- 93°C
Distribute, tamp level, pull. Adjust grind to hit time.