Rare Ground (Single Origin Coffee of the Month)

Kenya Nyeri Gura Peaberry
October Coffee of the Month · Medium/Light Roast

Tastes like: blackberry, kiwi, mango, mint, white wine

Bright, juicy and layered. This is a Kenyan coffee doing what Kenyan coffee does best: blackberry and kiwi up front, ripe mango as it opens, and a cool, clean finish that drinks like a crisp white wine.

It comes from about 500 smallholder farmers who deliver their cherries to the Gura Factory in Nyeri County, grown at 1,700 to 1,890 meters in volcanic soil. The coffee is fully washed, sorted by density, and dried slowly on raised beds for two to three weeks, which is where that clarity comes from.

It's also a peaberry. Most coffee cherries hold two flat-sided beans; a peaberry is the rare cherry that grows a single small, round one. They're sorted out into their own lot, and that uniform size and shape helps them roast evenly for a clean, focused cup.

Best as a pour-over or drip. Drink the first cup black.

Coffee details

• Region: Nyeri County, Kenya
• Grower: About 500 producers organized around the Gura Factory
• Altitude: 1,700–1,890 meters above sea level
• Varieties: SL28, SL34, Ruiru 11, Batian
• Soil: Volcanic loam
• Process: Fully washed, dried on raised beds
• Certification: Conventional