Sideyard Notes: Kenya 🇰🇪 Peaberry 🍅
Hello Sideyard Friends,
This week's Kenya peaberry is bit of a sourcing splurge. Kenya's command a premium to start with, and this one is a peaberry micro lot to boot. Just five bags were produced. For the newer folks on the list, peaberry is the name given to the coffee seeds resulting from cherries that only germinate a single seed rather than the standard back to back two-to-a-cherry (roughly 3% of this specific harvest). This extra space in the fruit allows them to develop a round-er shape. Small and round
From start to finish it's a really complex coffee--the kind that keeps you interested. There's citrus and spice and honey and a tannic finish. There's another note that I hesitate to mention because it doesn't necessarily sound like something you'd want in your coffee, so I'll pass the blame... A while ago I heard someone describe a Kenyan coffee as having notes of tomato. Now I. can. not. shake. it. when I drink certain Kenyan coffees. This is one of those coffees. I think it's something to do with the type of acidity that comes through as well as a certain savory note early in the profile. Frankly, I'd be happy for someone to tell me I'm imagining it. Whether you taste tomato or not, I trust you'll enjoy this one.
The origin track for the week is Sweet Sweet Mbombo by Orchestre Baba National.
Cheers,
Ryan
P.s. we have a couple extras in stock on the site.