Karani AA Washed // Kirinyaga, Kenya

Karani Factory was constructed 1998 and operated by the Kabare Cooperative Society and serves more than 600 smallholder farmers who deliver cherry to this station.  Nearby, Mount Kenya is visible from the factory and the surrounding farms, and as such the soil is sandy and volcanic, which yields prime conditions for cultivating healthy coffee trees.

Most farms here are extremely small, about 20 trees on average.  Farmers handpick ripe cherry and deliver it daily to the factory.  At intake, cherry is sorted before being pulped and then float sorted further.  Pulped cherry is dry fermented first for 16-24 hours before being sent through washing and grading channels.

*Orders Roast Tuesday, ship Wednesday.  Order cutoff from same-week fulfillment is Monday at 11:59pm.