Flavor notes: 
peach, apricot, sugar cane, berry, cacao nibs, floral

Process: Washed

Roast Level: Light

Cup Description: 

This is a juicy cup of coffee! Right away, you’ll notice the fruit-forward flavors; think peach and apricot. It has playful acidity, like biting into a ripe berry! As it cools, you’ll notice an underlining of brown sugar and maybe even a little bit of cacao. The cup is light on the mouth, kind of like a floral tea, but the lingering aftertaste is quite pleasant. Like many other Kenyan coffees, this one is a fruit bomb!

Farm Description: 

The Mahiga Factory sits up at 1800 meters in Nyeri County, nestled in the Othaya region of central Kenya. Coffee is processed and kept separate by process batch at the factory in order to identify quality. It’s a small but mighty operation, made up of just over 500 smallholder farmers who deliver ripe coffee cherries to be processed on-site. 

The team at Mahiga uses a traditional washed method: first, the cherries are depulped with a disc machine, then fermented to loosen the sticky fruit layer. After that, the coffee is soaked clean and dried slowly on raised beds under the sun. It’s a careful, hands-on process that brings clarity and character to the final cup. 

This particular lot is a peaberry outturn—a natural mutation where only one seed develops inside the cherry, resulting in a small, round bean. We found this peaberry selection to be especially refined and fruit-forward, standing out with delicate sweetness and layers of juicy brightness.

Altitude: 1800

Cupping Score: 91.5