Kenya Nguguini

Kenya AA Nguguini Estate

This Kenyan AA coffee is one of the most balanced and complex coffees.  By balanced it is meant that no characteristic dominates the others as to distort the overall flavor.  A dependable roast that truly captures the coffee experience.

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$7.50/lb Kenya AA Nguguini Estate Whole Bean

$7.50/lb Kenya AA Nguguini Estate Cold Ground

Nguguini Estate is a coffee of high acidity, medium body, and flavor notes of lemon and grapefruit.  These characteristics come together in an extremely complex coffee that is truly VIBRANT.

This coffee is graded “AA”, referring to the size of the bean, which is the largest exported from Kenya. Kenyan coffee is one of the most balanced and complex of coffee origins. By balanced it is meant that no characteristic dominates the others as to distort the overall cupping. Nguguini Estate is a coffee of high acidity, medium body, and flavor notes of lemon and grapefruit. It is grown approximately 100km north of Nairobi on the slopes of Mount Kenya at an altitude of about 6,000 feet. This coffee is wet processed, then slowly sun dried on raised tables. We generally perfer to roast Kenya coffees a bit lighter to preserve the famous acidity, but this is a hard bean coffee that will stand up to darker roasts if you prefer. In a French roast, it makes an absolutely superior press pot cup.