Kenya Gifted AA Espresso

About this coffee

MosesKamuraNgangais owns 3 separate plots of land in the hills around his fathers farm. Each plot is around 1-2 acres and the terrain is extremely steep. The name Gifted was a result of amatutu (a minibus or similar vehicle used as a taxi) which he received from the father, he called thatminibus Gifted so when his father gave hive him the farm he decided to use the same nameGifted for the farm. The farm is 60km north ofNairobi alongRuiruKiganjoroad. Initially the farmer was delivering coffee toKimaratiaFactory, but he started pulping his own coffee around 2011 alongside his 2 brothers who also have farms in the same area.Main flowering is January-February and fry crop flowering is October-November. The Coffee is pulped at the washing station at the family home which is central to the 3 brothers farms, andis then fermented overnight to breakdown the sugar before it is cleaned and washed in channels. Parchment is then spread outon raised drying tables. Drying times depend on climate and ambient temperature, but theprocess can take up to 3 weeks. At night and during very hot periods, parchment is covered by shade cloth to avoidbeing affected by humidity and extreme heat. As is tradition in Kenya, when Moses father became to old to run his farm, he divided it into 3 lots and gave 1 to each of his children. In 2018 we purchased his coffee at an auction designed to support small holder producers in Kenya and were blown away with the story and quality. We have been working with Moses since then and visited him in 2019, the year he won the best of harvest award in Kenya for the very coffee we purchased. *all coffee delivered as whole bean unless specified* *please comment with grind type if you would like your coffee ground*