18/08/2026
Kenya Kianderi is back! After pulping and an extended dry ferment in tanks, the coffee at Kianderi is washed using grading channels — and this is where Kenya East African coffee separates itself from most of the coffee world. It’s density sorting, done with water and paddles. The heaviest, most dense coffee will sink. Lighter, less dense beans travel farther down the channel, pushed by the water. By the time the coffee reaches the end of this grading process, it has been separated into two levels of quality.
That rigour is one of the reasons why washed Kenyans taste the way they do, and why we’ve been buying from the Kianderi co-operative in Kirinyaga since 2016. This year’s lot is an extended dry-ferment AA-bean size from only the densest coffee separated during the grading process — tasting notes include blackcurrant, rhubarb, and nectarine, a bright, juicy, classic Kenyan coffee.
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