Name: Kathendu AA
SKU: RS-ES-360
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Kenya

Kathendu Cooperative, Meru County, Kenya

Discover this exceptional single origin from coffee farmer Festus Kathendu from the highlands of Kenya – one of our absolute favorite origins that Ivo often raves about. Grown at an altitude of over 1500 meters, Festus produces some of the finest micro-lots in Kenya. You can expect an SL-28 and K7 variety that will delight your palate. The coffee from the Kathendu cooperative named after the farmer from Meru County in north-eastern Kenya has been double-washed and fermented, which creates a beautiful complexity and teases a rich fruitiness out of the bean.

Varieties & Process

SL-28 and K7 are 100% Arabica specialties
Process: Double Washed

Kathendu AA is a selectively hand-picked microlot of the SL-28 and K7 varieties. The former was developed in the 1930s by Scott Agricultural Laboratories (SL for short) as a mutation between Bourbon and Typica. The K7, bred in 1936, is prized for its resistance to coffee berry disease and its Bourbon ancestry, which adds depth and body to the cup. The beans are double washed and then dried on African beds.

Cranberry
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Cumquat
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Cacaobutter

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Espresso Recipe

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Kathendu AA

This fantastic micro-lot from Kenya will catapult you straight into summer. Kathendu AA comes from the fertile highlands of north-eastern Kenya and impresses with its lively freshness, complex aromas with notes of tangy cranberry, exotic kumquat and delicious cocoa butter – and an impressive clarity. A real clean cup awaits you. The AA in the name stands for the highest quality level and refers to the particularly large, ripe beans that have been carefully harvested and gently processed. Kathendu AA is more than just a coffee – it is a journey into the fascinating world of Kenyan coffee art that will delight every coffee lover.

Kenya Qualities

Coffees from Kenya are not only very popular with us. They are known for their fine acidity and high flavor intensity, which results in a particularly clean cup. This means that the coffee is free from defects and does not contain any unwanted aromas.

The abbreviation “AA” stands for the quality of the green coffee. Almost every country has its own system for qualifying coffee beans. In East Africa, the following classes are distinguished: AA, AB, A, B, C and PB (the small peaberry beans). Size, shape and the proportion of defective beans are assessed. Kenya AA is the category for the highest quality beans that can end up in your cup.

Details

Fine microlot from coffee farmer Festus Kathendu from the fruity highlands of north-eastern Kenya (Meru County)
Process: Double washed
Flavor profile: cranberry, kumquat, cocoa butter
100% Arabica coffee, freshly and gently roasted by hand in Berlin-Mitte
Delivery quantity: 250g, 500g or 1kg whole beans or ground for the stove-top pot or portafilter on request
Climate-neutral delivery with DHL Go Green
Pick-up on site:
Pick-up address: Röststätte, Ackerstr. 173, 10115 Berlin
After your order you will receive a pick-up confirmation by e-mail (please also check your spam folder)
Pick-up with e-mail confirmation possible: Monday-Friday between 09:30 and 18 o’clock

Important note for ground coffee:
Please note that we cannot offer a universal grind for ground coffee for use in portafilter machines. The optimum grind must be individually adjusted to the respective machine, as factors such as sieve size, pump and brewing pressure as well as temperature vary greatly depending on the model. We therefore always recommend buying whole beans and adjusting the grind yourself to suit your machine.

Important note on returns:
Ground coffee cannot be exchanged as it is ground exclusively at the customer’s request. Thank you for your understanding.

Sustainable cultivation and quality awareness

As with wine, the origin, cultivation and careful harvesting of coffee form the basis for a specialty coffee. We only use ripe and hand-picked 100% Arabica coffee beans for our coffees, as the laborious harvesting by hand is an essential quality criterion. Our highland coffees are natural products and are grown in shady forest gardens in an environmentally friendly way. This preserves the biodiversity of the growing region. The coffee cherries can ripen slowly at cool altitudes with nutritious and fertile soil conditions. Under these optimal climatic conditions near the equator, the coffee plants have more time to develop their characteristic and fruity aromas.

Freshly roasted by hand

All Röststätte coffees are gently roasted by hand in Berlin so that the natural aromas can fully develop without any unwanted acidity. To achieve a pronounced body and a versatile taste profile in the cup, we want to emphasize and optimally process the special features of the respective variety, farm and origin of the coffee with our roasting. The aim is therefore to exploit the full potential of the green coffee through our roasting method in order to emphasize the valuable work of the producers in the countries where the coffee is grown. These are our quality principles – from source to the final cup.

Espresso Recipe

Calibrated by Head Barista Valeriia Kutuzova
Standard espresso machine temperature setting: 93.5 ° C
Requirement: 18g portafilter (basket), double portafilter spout

Recipe

Dose in	18.9g
Extraction time in seconds	28
Dose out	40g

Freezing Date

22-33 Days after Roast Date

Taste Balance

Sweetness (low to high)	Medium
Acidity (low to high)	Medium
Bitterness (low to high)	Medium
Texture	Silky
Weight (low to high)	Medium
Finish (short to long lasting)	Long

Flavour

Cranberry, Kumquat, Cocoa Butter

Milkweight

Normal milk & Oat milk 110g

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