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Milk-based coffee

Maguta Estate, Kenya, Supernatural

$18.75
$18.75
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Butterscotch, raisin and stone fruit

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COFFEE PROFILE

Treat yourself to a one-of-a-kind cup of coffee by the talented producer David Ngibuini from Maguta Estate in Kenya. Using Supernatural processing, this coffee is full of sweetness and creaminess, tasting like butterscotch and raisin with hints of stone fruit.

TASTES LIKE Butterscotch, raisin and stone fruit
ROAST Milk-based

Story

The Maguta Coffee Estate, run by our friend David Ngibuini, works across Nyeri and Embu counties in Central Kenya, and produces some of the most classically extraordinary Kenyan coffee you can access. The Murware Farmers who deliver their cherries to this estate are a fast-growing cluster of farmers in the Muruguru area, with a collective 18,000 trees growing coffee cherries on red volcanic soils.

The Maguta Estate contains the infrastructure to process coffee to a high-quality, allowing the producers and farmers to be paid a better income. It has 10 fermentation tanks, 3 shaded parabolic drying tables each with a 1-tonne capacity, an all concrete fermentation room, Brix meter, pH meter, and more to help improve the processing quality. In addition, our green bean partner, Project Origin has collaborated with Maguta Estate to build carbonic maceration infrastructure that can be used to process coffee from all the farmers in the region, as a way of building a sustainable resource for producing high-quality grade coffees.

PRODUCER David Ngibuini
REGION Nyeri County
VARIETAL SL28 and SL34
PROCESS Supernatural
ALTITUDE 1650-1800 masl
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Origin

Nyeri County, Kenya

Nyeri lies between Mount Kenya and the Aberdare mountain range, along the the Eastern flank of the Great Rift Valley. The Kikuyu, the largest ethnic group in Kenya, call Mount Kenya the ‘Mountain of Whiteness’. The white peaks are thought to be the home and throne of the deity ‘Ngai’, the creator of the universe. The majority of the residents of Nyeri are members of Kenya's largest ethnic group, the Kikuyu, with residents generally being known as "Nyeri Kikuyu”. Coffee and tea farms surround the Nyeri town and are the most important source of income and community wealth in the county.

We have been buying lots from the David Maguta and his team for a number of years, working with them to develop experimental processing and generally improve infrastructure and facilities for its workers and the wider community. This particular lot is comprised of SL (Scotts Labs) varieties – SL28 and SL34 – which are among the most widely grown in Nyeri and Kenya as a whole. Grown by an assortment of Murware Farmers, the mixed SL cherries are collected, sorted and processed at Maguta Estate as a combined lot, showcasing the quality of the region and its farmers. 

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